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GLIDE PATH by Arthur C. Clarke

GLIDE PATH

TO THE HEART OF EXPERIMENTAL TECHNOLOGY..IN WWII!

by Arthur C. Clarke

Pub Date: Sept. 11th, 1963
ISBN: 0743475313
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World

The story is something of a hymn to a home-based British radar unit during WW II and concerns the development of a radar talk-down system for landing planes. The electronic saga sometimes pops with a bit of poetry and sentiment, but for the most part it is told in the tone of hardy idealism rarely encountered in today's fiction. We'll to the stars no more