Great Results from Trackers in Sector 5
Elf Pinky Yates, Elf Supervisor for Sector 5 in North and Central America, said the west coast flights of Santa’s sleigh in August have yielded fantastic results. She said there have been thousands and thousands of photos, videos and reports sent in of test flights in the skies.
“Pinky is right,” Elf Roger Star, director of North Pole Flight Command, said. “It’s data on the level we have never seen before. We are learning a lot not only about this latest design upgrade to Santa’s sleigh but also we are getting some new insights to sleigh flight in general that we think we help us in many ways of planning Santa’s flight.”
One of the great challenges in formulating Santa’s flight plan comes from the variety of weather conditions Santa encounters every Christmas Eve. With half the world in winter and the other half in summer, the differences in just temperature alone can be extreme. Those changes in air temperatures causes all kinds of issues with the materials used to make Santa’s sleigh.
Elf Quinton Q. Quigley, head elf of Research and Development at the North Pole, explained that the summer time test flights were critical to making Santa’s sleigh safe. “When people think of Santa and Christmas, they picture snow and cold weather. But we have to worry about all weather extremes. There are just some areas of the world where Santa travels very quickly from north to south and he touches on every kind of weather. When weather is hot people think that’s easier to fly in and not so rough on the sleigh as opposed to flying in the cold and the wind and the ice. But that’s not true. With every change in temperature there are slight expansions and contractions of the material, effectively affecting every joint on the sleigh. Quite literally Santa’s sleigh becomes weaker by the hour.”
That means designers and engineers have to study these flights in all weather to figure out how to make Santa’s sleigh stronger, not weaker.
And that is why test flights are so important. It mean seem silly to be tracking the test flights all over the map in August. But there is good reason for it all.
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