http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/ We talk about W. E. Johns and all his wo Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:12:37 GMT TK Robson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32082 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32082 I think he probably could fly but just didn't bother on the assumption there would always be somebody assigned to fly him. There is no mention of another pilot Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:53:56 GMT Brian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32081 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32081 Hello, I have just looked at "Secret Agent" again & to my mind it is clear von Stalhein had the plane moved, but not that he flew it himself. Biggles, Ginger & Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:31:35 GMT Brian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32080 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32080 Hello, So far as von Stalhein believing the pilot's role to be a subservient one, this is probably true at the time of Biggles Flies East. In much the same way Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:33:15 GMT g4hrh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32079 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32079 Have just got round to watching yesterday's Antiques Roadshow and discovered there was a Biggles collector featured. He started reading Biggles when he was 30 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:44 GMT Douglas Anderson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32078 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32078 Groupies Should just point out an historical reason for why von Stalhein might choose not to fly bourne out by the line "von Stalhein regards flying as a form Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:48:31 GMT g4hrh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32077 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32077 ... Shannon pointed out: "Exhaustively investigated in my review of "In Australia", in Biggles group files. Extract as follows. Von Stalhein can fly - he flew Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:50:40 GMT mono pasium http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32076 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32076 Doesn't he fly off in a Bristol fighter in Biggles flies east, at the end?  Although aren't they two-seaters?  I had always thought he couldn't fly other, Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:18:56 GMT Brian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32075 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32075 Forgive me if this has been covered in the past. Could von Stalhein pilot an aircraft? Most stories suggest not, but, speaking from memory, I believe there is Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:50:47 GMT Steven Parkes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32074 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32074 Sorry, Just posted the words around the IBA Biggles auction to receive an updated post from the group that shows Paul had already posted a much better Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:48:52 GMT Steven Parkes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32073 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32073 All, Just got this note from the International Biggles Association. One major auction of Biggles gear, if you can get an excuse to be in the Netherlands for Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:52:42 GMT pclvdw http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32072 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32072 As announced in Biggles News Magazine the International Biggles Association organises an international mega auction of the Biggles / Captain W.E. Johns Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:28:28 GMT g4hrh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32071 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32071 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1054687/Pictured-The-dramatic-scene-Red-Arrows-Hawk-jet-crash-landed-smashed-RAF-base.html The pilot's name was Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:08:08 GMT g4hrh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32070 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32070 I caught this article in Horse and Hound: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/article.php?aid=111389 Seems like they got the idea from Ginger following the Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:09:24 GMT alan_hamiltonuk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32069 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32069 ... where Biggles is concerned, I seem to remember that Biggles went into an alcoholic rage/self pity in the WW1 story when his friend (Batty?) was killed. Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:10:44 GMT Paul van der Werf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32068 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Biggles/message/32068 I believe they are the same as the H & S volumes. That is, the text is the same. But they sometimes don't have (all the) illustrations from the original H &S