Internet mentions : (for The Press Cuttings Collection see here)
(A selection from the huge amount of Internet mentions...)
Vince Hagedorn's pancake landing received wide Internet coverage - nearly
100 articles last time I looked. Here
is the Scottish TV report, including an interview with Mr Hagedorn.
Ed.
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There is now an entry
for the plaque in Hertford on the waymarking website.
13th August 2010
This
article does not mention Biggles or WEJ, but sounds so much like another
episode of Biggles, Charter Pilot that I could not resist including
it!
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27th July 2010
Auctioneers reported
that this day's auctions were being filmed for Dickenson's Real Deal.
Whether the particular W E Johns item mentioned (lot 119) will be included
in the programme on transmission I do not know, but might be worth keeping
an eye open for the next series.
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18th May 2010
The story
of a housesale in Lingfield, Sussex, in which the Deeds state that the
building cannot be sold without the collection of some of Johns' books
housed in it, appears in The
Telegraph as well as the Bed
and Breakfast guide to Winchester.
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10th May 2010
In the past week, web search returns have been inundated with "blog"
references to Biggles that have nothing whatever to do with Biggles or
W E Johns. The key words are inserted into political articles; presumably
the writers have noticed the popularity of certain figures and just put
the names into the middle of their articles so that they come up in Internet
searches. I have attempted to report this to Google, but have not been
able to find a way to do so. At one time, the company was concerned to
squash such obvious misuse of search engines.
23rd April 2010
This
"foodie" blog, includes a description of a visit to the
Biggles Bar at Lydd Airport, with a picture of the dining area.
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19th April 2010
This interesting
blog by Steve Holland is about the Italian artist Caprioli, who became
known after illustrating The Biggles Book of Treasure Hunting
for Ranger magazine. Johns is mentioned briefly, but the article is well
written and informative about the foreign artists who (unknown to us as
the pictures were not signed) illustrated many British magazines. Caprioli's
work in the Ranger is of particular importance as it was the first magazine
able to reproduce the fine detail in which he worked.
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29th March 2010
Gardening articles and blogs frequently quote Johns: many such writers
probably only know of his gardening interests and his writing for the
gardening magazine The Passing Show. Here
is one that has a nice reference to Biggles as well.
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29th March 2010
An interesting article
about the man who was the face of the RAF on the famous wartime poster,
includes a reference to him meeting WEJ before the war.
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12th February 2010
Although this
blog entry mentions W E Johns in passing, it is informative about
the"weeding" of books in public libraries and I think relevant
to this section.
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12th December 2009
Novelist Hilary Mantel has written an interesting article entitled "A
Life of Biggles" in The Guardian of 12th December.
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11th November 2009
UK
Commentators blogs refer to the report on what might be the remains
of Cambyses' army.
"If they really have found the remains of Cambyses' army, it would
be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. The dry
desert should have hopefully preserved weapons and armour - and what of
the paymasters' bullion, and the loot ?
There's only one slight problem. According to Capt W.E. Johns, the lost
army was discovered by Biggles, Algy and Ginger in the late 1930s. It
was also discovered by oil prospectors in 2000."
(refers to an article
in the mailonsunday)
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29th October 2009
Newquay
Zoo have made a wartime garden. Part of the display includes an issue
of The Passing Show. The writer sounds interested in discovering
another side to WEJ.
(Johns' gardening comments are popular, perhaps with people who do not
even know about Biggles, and appear in several blogs. This one is particularly
popular:
"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation
it provides. ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show")
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6th October 2009
In his "Airminded"
blog, Brett Holman comments about our website:
"Via the site, one can keep up with W. E. Johns, Biggles, Worrals
et al in the press, or explore the wider world of Bigglesiana on the web.
(Which introduced me to a site devoted to Popular Flying, a magazine edited
by Johns which featured articles by a number of airpower writers familar
to me, such as J. M. Spaight, E. Colston Shepherd, Arch Whitehouse and
Nigel Tangye.)"
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30th September 2009
Under the heading, "Who wrote 'The Adventures of Biggles', this article
by Kevin Patrick discusses the comic books, saying that the title was
intended to capitalise on the popularity of the radio series then running
in Australia.
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14th August 2009
Bishop David Chillingworth (of Dunkeld and Dunblane)'s blog
entry on Vince Hagedorn's escape read:
"Well done, Sir. And all of us who get through the day by tuning
into one or other of our fantasy worlds salute you. Today I’ve been
in ‘pale and drawn from too many dawn patrols’ mode - oil-stained
flying jacket - looking down on the trenches and reflecting, ‘Poor
bloody infantry.’ "
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23rd July 2009
In an interview on Mariah's
blog, writer Storyheart mentions Biggles as an early hero:
"What was your favorite book growing up? What about now? Do you have
a favorite genre or do you like them all?"
"I have always loved adventure books, when young my hero was Biggles
by Capt W.E. Johns somebody perhaps the US would never have heard of."
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