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June 14, 2023

Airborne 06.14.23: NEW MS FlightSim!, AN-124 Seized, Aerobatics Day!

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2023’s Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase has wrapped. Among the bigger surprises sprung during 2023’s showcase was the news that Asobo Studio is hard at work on a wholly new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Predating Windows by three-years, Flight Simulator is Microsoft’s longest-running software product line and one of the longest-running PC video game series of all time. An announcement from Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly noted the seizure of an An-124 pursuant the nation’s Special Economic Measures Act. The Antonov’s seizure was made possible by a new asset seizure and forfeiture prov

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