Airborne Warning and Control System

AU the aircraft involved were flying in clear weather with excellent visibility, an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft was providing surveillance and control for the aircraft in the area, and all the aircraft were equipped with electronic identification and communication equipment (apparently working properly) and flown by decorated and highly experienced pilots. 

AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System (a military air traffic control system in the sky)... 

The Combined Forces Air Component (CFAC) Commander was responsible for coordinating the employment of all air operations to accomplish the OPC mission. He was delegated operational control of the Airborne Warning and Control System... 

The AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) acts as an air traffic control tower in the sky. The AWACS OPC mission was to ... 

As the societal control culture moved towards diffusion, esca lation and innovation, so did the warning system become more formalized and bureaucratized. Shortly before August Bank Holiday, 1964, the Home Office Airborne Police Scheme to fly reinforcements in RAF Transport Command, was publicized. A local paper, in a report headed Town Is Ready For All Comers announced that besides elaborate pohce preparations, special arrangements had been made to open the Town Hall courtroom over the weekend. (Hostings and St Leonards Observer, 1 April 1965). These were not only warnings but stage setting ceremonies there was no doubt that the show would take place, one just had to make sure that the folk devils and their denouncers would have the appropriate arenas for their performance. 

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