Glide Path: To The Heart of Experimental Technology..In WWII!
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Overview:
- Title: Glide Path: To The Heart of Experimental Technology..In WWII!
- Author: Arthur C. Clarke
- Year: 1963
- Type: Non-genre
Notes:
Clark calls this a work of Non-fiction, but then stresses that ALL the characters in the story are imaginary. Only the Mark I, the first GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) radar talkdown system to aid aircraft during bad weather approaches is real. The story depicts the developement of this system during World War II.
Editions/Publications:
- 1963. Glide Path (1963, Arthur C. Clarke Harcourt Brace, Novel)
- 1969. Glide Path (1969, Arthur C. Clarke Sidgwick and Jackson, Catalog ID: #2839820664, 30s net, 229 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1987. Glide Path (1987, Arthur C. Clarke NAL/Signet, ISBN-10: 0451148665, $3.50, 252 pages, Paperback, Novel)
- 1991. Glide Path (1991, Arthur C. Clarke Bantam Spectra, ISBN-10: 0553290525, $4.99, 234 pages, Paperback, Novel)
- 2003. Glide Path : To The Heart of Experimental Technology..In WWII! (2003, Arthur C. Clarke I Books, ISBN-10: 0743475313, $11.95, 224 pages, Trade, Novel)
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