Furthermore, while individually developed non-white characters are rather infrequent, when they do occur, they are usually " positive ", from the Oxford-educated Chinaman, Li Chi, in Biggles Flies Again and Biggles Delivers the Goods and the perky Polynesian girl, Full Moon, in Biggles In The South Seas, to Alexander MacKay, a part-Native American ( Red Indian ) nicknamed " Minnie " who joins " the chums " as a valued colleague, and is in fact set to inherit Biggles ' job in Biggles Does Some Homework.

The protagonists are also closely paralleled in both novels, although in Biggles Delivers the Goods Li Chi ( originally from a short story in Biggles Flies Again ) reappears to take the place of a white character from the earlier version, and the headhunters, while still milked for " exotic colour " are much more sympathetically treated.

# Biggles Delivers the Goods ( 1946 )

Johns's " Biggles " books: Biggles – Air Commodore ( 1937 ), Biggles Delivers the Goods ( 1946 ), and Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns ( 1964 ).

The first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels are Coming, was published that same year.

Johns continued writing Biggles short stories and novels up until his death in 1968 ; in all, nearly 100 Biggles books were published.

There have been many different versions of comics about Biggles published in different countries in Europe.

In India, Euro Books published 14 titles of the Biggles Series along with compilations of the same in 2007.

Biggles – The Authorised Biography by John Pearson, published in 1978, added new and embellished elements to the character's history, including the ageing Biggles ' ( apparent ) suicide in a vintage Spitfire circa 1970.

A4 format cartoon adventures in which the Biggles characters use a mix of vintage and modern aircraft were published in the 1980s.

Different Biggles books are set within a time period of over 50 years – this produces a number of credibility difficulties, especially for older readers.

He continued working with Vandersteen until 1967, helping with many of the realistic series Vandersteen created in these years, including Karl May, Biggles and especially De Rode Ridder.

Biggles is accompanied by his cousin Algernon (' Algy ') Lacey and his mechanic Flight Sergeant Smyth, who are to accompany Biggles on his adventures after the war ; added to the team in 1935 is the teenager Ginger Hebblethwaite.

The bulk of the Biggles books, however, are set post-World War I and after Johns ' own flying career was over.

Johns did not write the scripts and apparently ended the contract after receiving complaints from young readers that the storyline had made Biggles " go soft " by taking up a blonde female lover.

The titles are separate from the books though they cover the same war or after war investigation operations of Biggles.

The Hawke government was accused of misusing the RAAF for domestic political purposes, and Evans's use of RAAF planes led to his earning the nickname " Biggles ", after Captain W. E. Johns's fictional aviation hero ¬– a self-inflicted wound, following his remark to journalists at the time ‘ whatever you do, don ’ t call me Biggles ’.

* The adventure novel Biggles Defies the Swastika by Captain W. E. Johns portrays the protagonist Squadron Leader Bigglesworth's ( Biggles ) adventures while trying to escape from Norway after getting stuck in the country during the German invasion.

Consisting of brothers Epic Soundtracks ( real name Kevin Paul Godfrey ) and Nikki Sudden ( real name Adrian Nicholas Godfrey ) two Solihull based teenagers, plus Biggles Books ( Richard Earl ), Phones Sportsman ( David Barrington ), John " Golden " Cockrill and Jowe Head ( Stephen Bird ), the band cut the single " Read About Seymour " as their debut in 1977, soon after the brothers left Solihull School ( also home of Spizzenergi ).

Another book, Biggles in Borneo, stereotypes Dayak headhunters as barely human " savages ", even though they are in fact Biggles ' allies against the Japanese.

# Biggles in Borneo ( 1943 )

The cultural and social world of Biggles ( whether that of the 1930s or some earlier period ) does not persist completely unchanged through the whole series – for instance, in an early book, the evidence points to an English nobleman as the perpetrator, but Biggles can dismiss this out of hand as the gentry would never commit a crime ; in a later novel, one of the gentry is the villain.

Romantic storylines, which would have bored his younger readers and embarrassed the older ones were also omitted, with only the very occasional exception, such as in Biggles Looks Back, where he and Von Stalhein rescue Marie Janis ( with whom Biggles was briefly in love in an earlier story ) from her prison in Bohemia.

Though Biggles and his friends age in the books, they do so much more slowly ( and inconsistently ) than appears historically credible.

However, Algy also features throughout Biggles in France, so the whole of Biggles in France must be set during the second half of The Camels are Coming.

In Biggles Goes to School, on one occasion when ordered to write lines in Latin he remarks that he would rather do so in Hindi.

Unlike most other " air " novels of the time ( e. g. Biggles ), it fits neatly into the canon of so called " Disenchantment " novels, which while well regarded in the present day, were largely ignored.

Johns was himself a First World War pilot, although his own career did not parallel that of Biggles particularly closely.

In these later books geographic and historical accuracy is rather less evident, and the sometimes rather grim detail of the first stories is moderated, in deference to the increasing popularity of the Biggles books with a younger audience than the older adolescents at which they were initially targeted.

Biggles began flying the F. E. 2b " pusher ", and later the Bristol F2B.

Cambyses's lost army also appears in Biggles Flies South ( 1938 ), and a 2002 novel by Paul Sussman, The Lost Army of Cambyses ( ISBN 0-593-04876-8 ), recounts the story of rival archaeological expeditions searching for the remains of his army.

A final unfinished novel Biggles does some Homework shows Biggles at last preparing to retire, and meeting his mixed-race replacement.

In the Terry Pratchett / Neil Gaiman novel Good Omens, Aziraphale collects a book titled Biggles Goes to Mars.

A number of Biggles characters appear in Kim Newman's alternate history novel The Bloody Red Baron.

* The plot of the novel Biggles Flies West, by Captain W. E. Johns, revolves around a cursed doubloon.

The currently recommended 2-D plotting package is Matplotlib, however, there are many other plotting packages such as HippoDraw, Chaco, and Biggles.

" Biggles " ( nickname for James Bigglesworth ), a pilot and adventurer, is the title character and main hero of the Biggles series of youth-oriented adventure books written by W. E. Johns.

It is from Von Stalhein that Biggles learns that Janis ( see " Female characters " below ) survived World War II and was imprisoned in Czechoslovakia, from where Biggles rescues her and goes on to support her in England.

Rather than being considered asexual or a repressed homosexual, Biggles ' relationship with Janis suggests he is a romantic hero, " tragically loyal to the only woman he ever really loved ".

The young Ginger is also smitten by the beautiful Polynesian girl, Full Moon, in Biggles in the South Seas ( 1940 ).

There is a discussion of the issue of Biggles, sex and alcohol in By Jove, Biggles: The Life of Captain W. E.

Algy, for instance, seems to be younger than Biggles to a degree that is impossible, at least by the ordinary calendar.

Quaint and dated language in the Biggles books is often footnoted in reprint editions for the benefit of modern readers.

To " ejaculate " in the Biggles books is merely a synonym for to " exclaim ".