James Bigglesworth, famously known as Biggles, is the heroic British World War One pilot who appeared in a series of 98 young-adult books by prolific author W.E. Johns. Like the best fictional British ...

It was not only Biggles who soared into the sky in his aeroplanes – the imagination of every schoolboy in the world who devoured his exploits and adventures also took wing. He was every child’s hero, ...

W E Johns in 1960, when Biggles was estimated to be the world's most popular hero for schoolboys Captain W E Johns's unfashionable hero deserves to soar again, says Neil Clark He fought and defeated ...

THE daring adventures of Biggles and his loyal chums Algy and Ginger have ­entertained ­generations of children. But the fighter pilot’s finest hour has never made it into print – until now. It is the ...

Biggles' Big Adventures by Captain WE Johns 781pp, Prion, £14.99 To say Ginger and Algy were flabbergasted at being revived so long after their original appearance would be to express their feelings ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter He's an unlikely children's hero. For starters, he isn't a child, he's a man. He smokes. He drinks whisky. He kills people. Yet ever ...

Picking up the books you once loved as a child, it’s difficult to read them with the innocence and glee you once had – but it also shows you how far you have travelled since your youth After he ...

A pilot whose light aircraft crashed into a tree on a Dundee golf course has attributed his lucky escape to his love of the Biggles adventure stories. Vince Hagedorn struck the tree on the 15th hole ...

Vince Hagedorn, a pilot who survived when his plane crashed into a tree on a Dundee golf course, said he had the Biggles adventure stories to thank for his lucky escape. 13 August 2009 • 8:19am ...

A pilot whose light aircraft crashed into a tree on a Dundee golf course has attributed his lucky escape to his love of the "Biggles" adventure stories. Vince Hagedorn's two-seater aeroplane struck ...