What is "biggles"

James Bigglesworth, nicknamed "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and main hero of the Biggles series of youth-oriented adventure books written by W. E. Johns (1893–1968). Biggles first appeared in the story "The White Fokker", published in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine, in 1932. The first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels Are Coming, was published that same year. The series was continued until the author's death in 1968, eventually spanning nearly a hundred volumes – including novels and short story collections – most of the latter with a common setting and time.

Biggles is a 1986 British sci-fi adventure film directed by John Hough and later released in 1988 in the United States as Biggles: Adventures in Time). The plot involves a time traveller from the 1980s who is inserted into World War I to help the character Biggles from the series of novels by W. E. Johns and where Biggles also travels to the 1980s to fight time-travelling World War I Germans. The film stars Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White and Peter Cushing in his final feature film role.

Biggles was a 1960s television series based on the Biggles series of books by W.E. Johns. Neville Whiting played the title role.