newsWelcome to Yet Another Biggles Site (YABS)
Yet Another Biggles Site (YABS to its friends) is one of many sites for James Bigglesworth, the intrepid pilot hero of Capt W.E. Johns.
YABS' aims are:
- to allow readers to review, rate, and thus rank, all the Biggles adventures
- to provide a complete reference for all characters and craft mentioned in those adventures
- to provide an accessible and modifiable bibliography
As a result, this is most definitely a reader's site. And that's because I'm sure, like me, most of us are readers first, collectors second.
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| Sergeant Bigglesworth CID |  |   (9) |
| The Camels are Coming |  | (9) |
| The Black Peril |  |  (8.8) |
| Biggles and Co |  | (8.7) |
| Biggles Flies East |  | (8.7) |
| Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter |  | (8.7) |
| Biggles Foreign Legionnaire |  |  (8.7) |
| Biggles Secret Agent |  | (8.6) |
| Biggles Takes Charge |  | (8.6) |
| Biggles Defies the Swastika |  | (8.5) |
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random review
From bertie (Mar 2009):
Biggles is handed what could be the most important assignment of his career, ferrying a diplomat around the middle east. A deal is going down between two tiny kingdoms over oil, on the doorstep of the Iron Curtain. It's important stuff, apparently, but Biggles smells a rat - he can't read Zorlan, which makes him a likely bad egg. Average story that certainly lacks a spark - even the standard haboob was a bit dull. It only livens up when the paratroops drop in and the bullets start flying, but unfortunately that occurs in the last 15 or so pages.
Can you guess what title is being described?
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ePUBs are coming
Am spending my time at work building content for the Apple iPad. What better way to practice than by converting some Biggles books to EBooks. Managed to find the text to three books in the yahoo group. So far two are now ready for perusal:
- Deep Blue Sea (168KB)
- Looks Back (614KB, includes illustrations)
To use just download and drag into iTunes. You'll then be able to open and read from within iBooks on the iPad or iPhone (IOS4 only).
Next (and only one unless someone has source files for other tiles) will be Plane that Disappeared. But I'll wait on publishing that one until I fathom how to add footnotes and links to make these books sing. Imagine reading about a Sopwith Camel and being able to click on the mention to view a quick video of one in action. All possible with the technology we have.
Anyway enjoy these first two. Let me know what you think..
Corner of Kent and Market
Amazing the things you see when wandering around Sydney. On my way to a meeting and discovered this gem hanging in the foyer area for an office building.
Anyone have any views on the model and/or whether real or not. The frame looks too intricate to be a mockup?.
- full shot
- front-on, with motorbike for scale
- from the rear (perfect firing position - although perhaps a little close)
- looking in from the street
Apologies for picture quality; only armed with the iPhone at the time.
Biggles Learns to Fly
The new Norman Wright has arrived (or at least my copy has).