Biggles Learns to Fly

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<p><i>Adventures with amazing flying machines!</i></p><p><b>SPECIAL MISSION</b></p><p>It's the First World War and Biggles is just 17. The planes are primitive; combat tactics are non-existent; the only form of communication for pilots and their gunners is by hand signals. They are reliant on the skill of their fellow crew, their wit and, above all else, bravery.</p><p>In hostile enemy skies, where instinct and fast reactions are everything, Biggles must learn to be a real fighter pilot, or diebut does he have what it takes?</p>

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Captain W. E. Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918. Between the wars he edited Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The First Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in 1932, and W. E. Johns went on to write a staggering 102 Biggles titles before his death in 1968.

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