Alternative Biggles, from the lost files of W.E.Johns

[Radish]

Chaps, having read 28 of the original Biggles stories recently, and with a few(??!!!) more to go, there have been some interesting developments in the lost archives of W.E.Johns that need to be mentioned, namely the outline plots of a number of stories that Johns didn't complete or publish.
The first of these to be described is:

"Biggles: Into the Wind", a WW2-based tale, where Biggles and friends are carrier-based on HMS Sutherland, in the Pacific. Various aircraft feature in attacks against Japanese battleships and convoys, including Corsairs, Wildcats and Avengers. Also, Biggles flies a Catalina to rescue POWs.

Any other stories you may have discovered?

Remember, the majority of Biggles stories feature in the period 1930-1960.

[raafif]

Don't know any that he was planning. Is there a list of Biggles titles with publish date & basic plot lines ??


How about Biggles et al transferring to the RNAS & flying Wyverns in the Suez or Korea.  Plenty of mystery ideas there with the assasination of Nasser etc

or maybe flying Brigands in Malaya 

OR
    Biggles follows my cousin's career -- attached to RAF Intelligence in 1950, he's based in East Berlin & roams East Germany in an armoured Ford sedan with heavily tinted glass to keep an eye on Ruski moves to invade the West ....
see the true story here .... http://www.brixmis.co.uk/

I could tell you more of what he got up to there but I'd have to kill you afterwards

[NARSES2]

The National Army Museum in London has a nice permanent display on the "BRIXMIS" operations. I wasn't aware of it until I saw the display, very interesting

[PR19_Kit]

Biggles follows my cousin's career -- attached to RAF Intelligence in 1950, he's based in East Berlin & roams East Germany in an armoured Ford sedan with heavily tinted glass to keep an eye on Ruski moves to invade the West ....
see the true story here .... http://www.brixmis.co.uk/

One of the BRIXMIS 4x4 Senators is on display at Cosford, in the Cold War Hangar. I was grovelling on the floor trying to confirm that it really did have the Ferguson 4x4 system when one of the attendants asked me what I was doing.... 

[Mike Wren]

one day I'll get round to converting a 1/43 diecast Minichamps Opel Senator into a BRIXMIS car, and a Range Rover & G Wagen too... 

[Nick]

If you want to borrow my copy of BRIXMIS by Tony Geraghty just ask. Great reading!

What about 'Biggles Legs It', where our dashing fighter pilot hero has been shot down over France and has to get away from the blasted Hun? n doing this he is caught in-flagrante by the husband of the blonde he's been <ahem> sheltering with and has to make a run for it through town under cerfew minus his trousers. Brought to safety by the Resistance, he steals a top secret German plane (the Me-262XL Zwilling) and flies safely to England, stopping off en-route to pick up Ginger from his hiding place in a dung heap.

Or does that sound too far fetched? 

[PR19_Kit]

Or does that sound too far fetched? 

Nick,

Come on! This is Whiffland, there isn't ANYthing that's too far fetched here. 

[Hobbes]

4x4 Senators

[raafif]

hey guys,
  here's an excellent site on W.E. Johns & the Biggles books 
http://www.wejohns.com

Includes link to another site where you can buy reprints of the older books.