The Fledglings
Written by
W. E. Johns
Copyright 1935
5th of 10 stories in . Originally published in The New Book of the Air in 1935 and then in Modern Boy #47, January 7, 1939. It was edited by the author as a WWII story and appeared as The Hare and the Tortoise in Every Boy's Annual in 1950 and then later as such in the collection .
Wilkinson offers a bet to Biggles that his new pilot will shoot more enemy planes down than Biggles' new pilot.