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New Sleigh Design Debate Continues

Sleigh Design Debate

The design of Santa’s new sleigh is mired in debate at North Pole Flight Command.

According to North Pole Flight Command Director, Elf Roger Star, who is an experienced sleigh designer himself, the controversy stems from a proposed radical new design some are calling “forward box design”. Many on the Sleigh Committee want to build and test a sleigh using the radical design while others are insisting on a design that follows the traditional design of sleighs used by Santa in recent years.

“It’s only working on a computer,” admitted Elf Z, the Associate Director of Santa Trackers, who is part of the Sleigh Committee. “They have run simulations on how such a sleigh will work. And it is impressive. It increase’s the load capacity by 8 percent while improving top speed by better than 3 percent, which means Santa can get around the world faster and more efficiently. The numbers look great. But it needs rigorous testing and that will take at least 3 years. And that’s the debate. There are elves who want to push this now and bypass the testing process by using it this year. That’s why we don’t yet have a design decision for this year’s sleigh.”

All that has sleigh builders and test flight engineers nervous.

“We should be building right now,” said Elf Maynard Fielding, a master sleigh builder on the prototype team. “Santa should be looking at something physical. We need to get something in the air by June 1st and we’re way off that mark right now. That’s the target every year. We’re going to need more time to build than usual if we’re going to use the forward box design. We’ve never built one. This stuff cannot happen quickly. So yes, we’re very concerned.”

Santa has not weighed in yet on the the design debate. He is aware that we are now behind schedule but adjustments to the calendar or even meeting schedule have not yet been made.

Elf Roger Star says he has discussed the issue in general administrative staff and that has been aware this is now a problem. We expect movement on this very soon.

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