Glide Path

{{short description|1963 war novel by Arthur C. Clarke}}

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| caption = First edition

| author = Arthur C. Clarke

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| publisher = Harcourt Brace

| release_date = 1963

| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)

| pages = 229 pp

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Glide Path is a novel by the English writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1963. Clarke's only non-science fiction novel, it is set during World War II and relates a fictionalized version of the development of the radar-based ground-controlled approach (called "ground-controlled descent" in the novel) aircraft landing system, and includes a character modeled on Luis Alvarez, who developed this system. It is based on Clarke's own wartime service with the Royal Air Force, during which he worked on the GCA project.