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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Biggles being at least a non-practicing gay can be inferred from the books given a modern dirty mind. It is a verifiable detail that only ''one'' woman even came close to seducing Biggles away from the manly embrace of his chums. A blonde [[
* [[Ace Pilot]]
* [[Anachronic Order]]: His origin story, ''Biggles Learns to Fly'', was not the first book to be published.
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** A couple of stories are set during his childhood.
* [[Military Alphabet]]: Uses the old [[World War I]] era British one (Ack for A and so on).
* [[Malaproper]]: "Casting nasturtiums" for "casting aspersions" occasionally.
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: ''Biggles Flies South'' contains a scene in which Biggles and two slightly younger sidekicks are caught in an Egyptian sandstorm and having to ride it out in the plane without crashing - easier said than done.
{{quote|'''Algy''': A mountain! Look out!
'''Biggles''': Impossible!
(and tips the plane sideways just barely in time not to collide with said mountain) }}
* [[Said Bookism]]
* [[Single Tear]]: He sometimes reacts this way to [[Redshirt]] deaths.
* [[Sky Pirate]]
* [[Universal Driver's License]]: In [[The Movie]] ''Biggles: Adventures in Time'', Biggles (transported in time from [[World War I]] to the late twentieth century) is able to work out how to fly a helicopter after a few minutes experimentation. He even says, without apparent irony, "If you can learn to fly a Sopwith Camel, you can learn to fly anything!" (the Camel was a notoriously hard to handle aircraft, with a well deserved reputation as a pilot killer)
** Amusingly not so in ''Biggles in France'', in which he tries to escape from behind the German lines in a balloon.
{{quote|'''Biggles''': Why don't they fix aero-control sticks to these kites? }}
** And when he gets back to the British lines, he meets a group of Royal Engineers with a captured German tank. He wanted to see what it looked like inside, and crawled into the driver's seat to get a look at the controls. And, just to see what would happen, pulled a lever. Which happened to be the throttle ... and got stuck in the 'full on' position ... [[Hilarity Ensues|poor Biggles.]]
* [[Vapor Trail]]: A [[Sky Pirate]] encounters Biggles' deHavilland Mosquito fighter variant (four 20mm cannon plus or minus four .303 machine guns) in place of the unarmed bomber-turned-civilian-transport he'd planned to attack. When Biggles nails his opponent's fuel tank, the fellow panics and attempts to return fire through ''his own'' vapour trail. Because he's using tracer rounds, which basically trail a stream of fire behind them for up to six hundred yards... well, you can guess the rest.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Several such moments in ''Biggles in France''. The crowning glory is his expedition across German lines to fetch a turkey, for which there isn't room in his aircraft to take back with him. {{spoiler|So he sat on it. Which worked about as well as one might except, with the exception that [[Too Dumb To Live|he survived.]] }}
* [[World War I]]: Although only a fraction of the books are set during the First World War, this is the period with which Biggles is mostly associated.
* [[World War Two]]
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