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Glide Path: To The Heart of Experimental Technology..In WWII!
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743475310
ISBN: 0743475313
Label: I Books
Manufacturer: I Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 01, 2003
Publisher: I Books
Studio: I Books
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Editorial Review:During World War II, as an RAF officer, Arthur C. Clarke was in charge of the first radar "talk-down" equipment, the Ground Controlled Approach, during its experimental trials. His novel Glide Path is based on this work.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - book
This book is Clarke's first, and is a neat little book.
It's not up to his later standards, but for me, was fun reading.
It shows the start of early radar and some interpersonal conflicts/relationships at his 1st RAF posting.
Rating:  - Really neat book, bad proofreading
Glide Path is a historical novel, describing WW2 radar technology to help land aircraft. Sir Arthur was there, and it shows, both the historical atmosphere and the technology. It's a good read.
This edition is seriously compromised by a bad OCR job and no apparent proofreading beyond a mechanized spell check. The novel itself is an easy 5 stars. As presented here it's three, at best.
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