Sabotage[]
There were many occasions when Biggles or other of the protagonists experienced sabotage to their aircraft or equipment. Equally, Biggles and co. have been called upon to do the same to their adversaries. The defining criteria of this list is an element of stealth. For straight-forward bombing, find them in the list of explosions: Blow me down.
Dishing it out[]
- Bertie Picks the Lock - Bertie, a lock on the Somme canal.
- Biggles Hunts Big Game. Chapter 16. Biggles tells Ginger to sabotage the power generator of Kudinga.
- Biggles Breaks the Silence. Chapter 14. Biggles cuts the mooring ropes of a ship and sets it adrift.
- African Assignment. Biggles immobilises the aircraft belonging to the Steiners.
- The Case of the Mysterious Gunshots. Biggles tells Ginger to drain the main tank of the Storch belonging to the poachers.
- Biggles in Australia. Chapter 10. Biggles tells Ginger to remove the valves from Roth's radio.
- Biggles Cuts It Fine. Chapter 10. Ginger sabotages the radio antenna of the secret military base on Hog Island.
- Biggles Makes Ends Meet. Chapter 10. Ginger cuts the mooring ropes of a yacht belonging to a gang of smugglers on an island in the Nicobars, causing it to be run aground.
- Biggles Makes Ends Meet. Chapter 16. Bertie sets fire to some oil drums near the yacht which Ginger had earlier caused to be run aground. This was mainly to delay and divert but the yacht ends up burnt.
- Biggles' Combined Operation. Chapter 14. Bertie and Eddie Ross set fire to the Saphos.
Taking it in[]
- Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.. Chapter 4. Aileron cable of Spur cut.
- Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 6. Cut in leading edge fabric of Proctor causing fabric to balloon..
- Another Job for Biggles. Chapter 10. A failed attempt at sabotaging Bertie's Proctor, foiled by his alertness.
- Biggles Works It Out, Chapter 5. Attempt to sabotage Algy's Auster with a gelignite bomb. Foiled by a close inspection before flight.
- Biggles Works It Out, Chapter 7. Another attempt to sabotage Algy's Auster, this time with a hacksaw, foiled.