Also: Avidyne, Piper, AeroNav, Satellites, EAA, AVW, NTSB, SpaceX... and SO MUCH MORE!!!!

Happy Holidays from the crews at Aero-News, Aero-TV and Airborne! Even though the year is coming to a surprisingly busy close (and thank God for that, eh?), there was plenty to cover this week in Airborne-land.

And as usual, there were items popping up all over the place, even as we tried to complete this episode.

PLEASE keep sending us your feedback and ideas... you have no idea how important that is to us as we evolve the Airborne mission. As we listen to your critiques, we're getting a far better idea as to how to tweak and fine-tune future Airborne programming to fit you needs.

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Airborne 12.23.11 is chock full of info about the week ending Friday, December 23rd, 2011... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton and Paul Plack, this episode covers:

• The FAA Finally Publishes Rest Regs
• TBM-700 Downed In Bad WX
• Avidyne Certs for Piper PA-46 Line
• The Sultan Of Brunei Now Owns ALL Of Piper
• The Guessing Over The Next FAA Admin Is Under way!
• Barefoot Bandit To Do Hard-Time

• AeroNav Thinks Flyers Are Their Own Private ATM
• Another Satellite Coming Down
• SpaceX Readying For ISS Mission
• China's Aircraft Carrier Revealed
• Barnstorming Features EAA's Rod Hightower, This Week
• TSA's Pistole Seems A Mite PO'ed
• ANN Salutes The Aero-Innovators Of 2011
• Aero-Video Of the Week Encounters SANTA!!!
• NASA Knows Rock??? Who Knew?

Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for another edition of "Airborne" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you next week!

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