Gee was devised by Robert Dippy as a short-range blind landing system to improve safety during night operations, but during development by the Telecommunications Research Establishment ( TRE ) at Swanage it was found the range was far better than expected and it developed into a long-range general navigation system.
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In his 1959 paper John Charnley, then Superintendent of the UK Royal Aircraft Establishment's ( RAE ) Blind Landing Experimental Unit ( BLEU ), concluded a discussion of statistical results by saying that " It is fair to claim, therefore, that not only will the automatic system land the aircraft when the weather prevents the human pilot, it also performs the operation much more precisely ".
