17-03-2014, 04:51 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:[quote=Peter Presland]
As per the AWACS camouflage, Air Traffic Control knows its regular commercial flights. I'm pretty sure a bogus flight would stand out on air traffic radar as remarkable. Especially late at night when there are few flights. Plus I'm pretty sure the ATC controller would notice an AWACS aircraft tagging along.
I'm far less certain that an AWACS plane would be seen by normal commercial radars. Besides this they can effect control from a long way off. Also, it's possible a smaller version of AWACS could fly close to and above or below - but slightly behind the airliner and therefore appear to be the same aircraft radar signature. I've watched a USAF Hercules fly low (maybe a couple hundred feet most) out over the coastline of Suffolk in England at night - fully lit as per regs - but with a smaller fighter aircraft flying below and just at the tail of the Herc. This one was unlit and the only conclusion I could reach was that it was tasked to use the much larger Hercules radar signature to hide it from British ground radars. In other words, it was an unattributable black flight cloaked from the authorities of its host nation.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14