Test Flights Suspended
North Pole Flight Command has issued a suspension order for the test flights of Santa’s sleigh, declaring the sleigh ready for Santa.
Test flight pilots and reindeer will be heading home soon. The Sleigh Department, meanwhile, has been constructing Santa’s actual sleigh. It will be commissioned on December 23rd.
That leaves just one final test flight to be taken, scheduled right now for sometime very early on December 23rd. The purpose of the final flight is to test the sleigh for Santa himself. If it passes that test it comes home to be washed, waxed and fitted with the bells that make Santa’s sleigh so famous.
That means Flight Command will be pulling down the map that believers and tracker elves have been following now for months. The next time you see the map will be when Santa launches from the North Pole.
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