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December 27, 2016

Airborne 12.27.16: Best Aero-Stories of 2016?, Scorpion Jet, Austro AE300 Update

Also: Drone Anniversary, Barefoot Bandit Grounded, Aero-Calendar, VSS Unity, Iran Air-Airbus, Trump Cost-Cutting, 500th 787

During the last year, we at ANN have covered a lot of aviation and aerospace stories in our airborne broadcasts. We came up with the idea of presenting a review of the most important stories covered in 2016, but we realize it’s not what was important to us that counts, it’s the stories that caught the attention of our viewers that matters. We’re looking for your input on stories that were of particular interest to you. It may have been some shattering news or it may have been one of our videos that make you happy, sad, or amazed. We want you to tell us what caught your attention. The first production conforming Sco

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