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5 Days to Santa’s Launch

5 Days to Santa's Launch

There are now just five days until Santa’s launch.

Santa’s sleigh ended the run of test flights, as we reported yesterday. Engineers are very pleased with the results. There will be one final test flight, to be taken in the actual sleigh Santa will fly, in the hours before his launch. That flight is scheduled for December 23rd.

Operation Air Lift continues. Flight Command today announces the addition of 10,000 reindeer and 1000 additional sleighs to the effort effective today. That brings the total of reindeer now shuttling gifts from the North Pole to 32,000.

In addition to materials from Santa’s workshop in transit to staging areas all over the world Operation Airlift will also begin shuttling elf personnel to different work locations in support of Santa’s flight.

Those include professional tracker elves, whose assignments are technical in nature as assigned by the Sleigh Department. These elves are charged with observing Santa’s sleigh from ground level and testing for certain performance metrics.

With weather observations coming into Flight Command from the various Regional Tracking Centers around the globe, fed by remote living and working volunteer tracker elves who track Santa for Santa, it is felt the support for weather data is pretty strong for Santa’s flight. Nevertheless a number of weather sleighs are launched as part of Operation Airlift to perform atmospheric data collection and observation in a number of critical areas of the world.

Tracker Elves will soon be doing check-ins as the countdown to Santa’s launch continues.

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