An early winter snowstorm knocked the North Pole offline mid-week and it has been a struggle to restore vital services. Weather watchers in Flight Command say the storm has been the equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane. Normally a winter blizzard is not so disruptive to a place used to heavy year-round weather. But September […]
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 […]
