Elf Meg Nogg
Elf Meg Nogg
Elf News Reporter at North Pole News Network
Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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Test Flights Switch to Nights Only

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The test flights of Santa’s sleigh will now only fly at night. Given that Santa’s flight is less than 12 days away, this move does not come as a surprise.

“Night flight testing is crucial because Santa spends his entire flight in the dark, no matter where he is,” says Elf Buck Sanchez, Flight Director at the North Pole. It is typical for the test flights to switch to all-night flying at this point in the calendar.

But some elves in Flight Command also see this move as a good indicator that things are improving with Santa’s sleigh. By switching to night flights many are thinking the sleigh must be performing acceptably. We have not received any confirmation of this however and the actual performance of Santa’s sleigh is right now being regarded as privileged information.

Version 11 of Santa’s sleigh has been functioning for over two weeks now.

We do not know if another version of the sleigh is expected to be tested. We have heard from elves in the Research and Development Department that version 12 of the sleigh has been constructed and is just awaiting decision on its deployment.

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Elf Meg Nogg
Elf News Reporter at North Pole News Network
Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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Thanksgiving Break Scheduled for Test Flights

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Thanksgiving is a major celebration at the North Pole and all personnel associated with the test flights of Santa’s sleigh are coming home to take a break and celebrate the day. This happened at Halloween as well. All test pilots, reindeer, engineers and designers are expected home no later than November 23rd.

The sleigh, as of this date, is officially somewhere in Mexico and has been pushing north for several days.

When those crews return they will be piloting version #9 of Santa’s sleigh.

Per policy, we cannot disclose technical details or differences in each version of the sleigh. It is quite normal for a new sleigh design to go through several versions during the testing process.

A good break from test flights give the reindeer opportunity to rest up and for teams to gather together to compare notes before heading back out to continue testing the sleigh.

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Elf News Reporter at North Pole News Network
Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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Bedtime Advisories Will Be Different This Year

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The past several years, as Santa has worked to improve on his performance record, he has arrived increasingly earlier than ever before. Many years ago, to help let believers know he was close by on Christmas Eve, Santa started sending out “bedtime advisories”, an alert that helps believers know when to go to bed on Christmas Eve.

The way this has worked is very simple. Santa sends the advisory himself, directly from the sleigh.

Improvements to this system are announced today.

Santa will still send the advisory from the sleigh before he gets to each area. It is believed this advisory will come between 8pm and 10pm local time on Christmas Eve. This works nicely with Santa’s preferred delivery window of 10pm to 4am every Christmas.

But now when Santa sends the advisory it will be shared on all websites of the North Pole and, new this year, there will be sharing of that information during North Pole Radio News reports during the Tracking Santa Around the World Radio show that runs every December 23rd to 25th each year.

Radio personality and London-based news anchor Elf Victoria Wassail will tackle the assignment of announcing bedtime advisories on Kringle Radio this year.

Santa is hopeful that these efforts to better publicize the advisories will result in better compliance with early bedtime expectations on Christmas Eve.

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Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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Halloween Break Ordered for Pilots and Reindeer

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A break for all test pilots and reindeer working the test flight teams has been ordered. Starting tomorrow, October 28th, teams will be returning to the North Pole for the break. After the North Pole Halloween Party scheduled for October 31st the pilots and reindeer will return to active duty.

This break gives crews from Research and Development to position Version 8 of Santa’s Sleigh to begin testing Tuesday, November 1st. We are awaiting a decision from Flight Command about where those tests will take place.

We also anticipate clearing the tracking map of past places where the sleigh has flown since July. This will give us all a fresh take on the test flights as we go into the month of November.

November is expected to be a big month of testing.

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