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OzSTOC Ride Reports, Pictures & Videos => Pictures & Video's and Games => Topic started by: Diesel on May 18, 2012, 11:05:10 PM
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(http://i49.tinypic.com/sgoppy.jpg)
Cheers, Diesel
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See your book, and raise you 10. ( been in my book case for 20 or so yrs. Found them in a book sellers car in Malaysia )
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/Avtrician/Misc%20Photos/BigglesBooks.jpg)
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:-++ Blimey Brock I've gained a whole new respect for you!! :-++
Now can I get you to go and put me in your Will for those? Please? :whistle
I can't recall how many I've read, but I know there were 104. I vaguely remember borrowing one of the frontispages decades before photocopiers, so I could keep track of my reading.
For the record, I was dubbed "Biggles" while teaching out in Bourke. Apparently I evinced a greater appreciation for flying than teaching. I'd beg borrow or hire any locally hangared lightie I could get my hands on. Being a relatively remote town, there were plenty of opportunities to rack up the hours.
Almost every time I try to use it as a pseudonym on the internet it's already taken, and I'm offered "Biggles 18" or somesuch. So there are a lot of wannabes out there!
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I read every one I could get my hands on, my mother used to buye them for me at school Fetes. I have no idea how many I read. I have been working with planes for 40 Yrs, even have a few hrs flying Hueys left seat.
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I have read most of them, as the primary school library had them. Anyone else remember Gimlet, who was a commando type that WE Johns had as a character?
http://www.wejohns.com/ (http://www.wejohns.com/)
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Yes, I remember Gimlet, must see how much they are for the kindle
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They've "Kindled" them?! I gotta get a Kindle. The Kindle PC app just doesn't quite do it for me.
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You can get soe Biggles on the Kindle, but havent found Gimlet yet. Gotta try another few search parameters