Flights of Santa’s Sleigh – officially called Version 3 – revealed new issues in recent tests. Flight engineers, test pilots and sleigh designers met on board of the SS Jingle Bell more than a week ago to discuss needed changes. That resulted in a quick build of Version 4 of Santa’s sleigh. 12 shiny new […]
The end of the road comes today for the first generation of the newly redesigned sleigh that Santa will fly this year. It will be a sleigh design that goes down in dubious history simply because it crashed last week. But it is not unusual for a year’s first design to end dubiously. They never […]
The caravan of sleighs – ultimately heading for retirement at the North Pole – are doing their last bit of test service on this, their 2nd day, of extended flight. The plan is for them to push over the Regional Tracking Center at Wiseman’s Creek in Australia before taking a long route north over the […]
After more than 20-continuous hours in flight the test flight caravan of 11 sleighs has paused for the next 8 hours at least. They have landed on the deck of the SS Tannenbaum, which is on duty in the Indian Ocean. Nearly 20 hours ago the flights resumed in the South Pacific, heading east first […]
