Title: You're on the Glide Path

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Title: You're on the Glide Path - I Think Title Record # 1393752
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1949-09-23
Type: ESSAY
Language: English

Note: First published in The Aeroplane, September 23, 1949, pp. 441-2. Facsimile is reprinted in Ascent to Orbit (1984). Versions in other books are abridged and have different prefatory notes, but the piece is essentially the same. For semi-fictional treatment of the same subject see Clarke's only non-sf novel, Glide Path (1963).

Synopsis: An account of Clarke's wartime experience when he worked in Cornwall with ''a bunch of wild young scientists and engineers'' on the so called GCA (Ground Controlled Approach), a radar system designed to ''talk aircraft down, rather than shoot them down.''

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography	1984-04-00	Arthur C. Clarke	John Wiley & Sons	0-471-87910-X	$19.95^?$: US dollar	viii+ 226	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic
How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village	1992-06-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz	0-575-05226-0	£15.99^?£: UK pound	289	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic	Steven Hunt
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened	1999-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Voyager	0-00-224697-X	£19.99^?£: UK pound	xviii+ 558	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998	1999-08-00	Arthur C. Clarke	St. Martin's Press	0-312-19893-0	$35.00^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 558	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	non-fic

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