Website of the Week – NoradSanta.org
Santa Claus gets some serious help each year from a wide variety of folks. Some of the folks that help keep him on schedule, are the same folks that protect our country. NORAD ensures that Santa can bypass the many problems with Air Traffic Control (hypersonic vehicles like Sleigh1 require special guidance to avoid other airplanes). Their partnership with the ELF Team (Extreme Little Flying Team), ensures that Santa can make all of the stops that he needs to within the roughly 24 hours he has to deliver gifts.
Side note: While Christmas Eve is 24 hours to us, Santa starts at the International Date Line around 8:00pm, and can hit many homes earlier in the evening. By the time he gets to the last few time zones, he may actually arrive later in the night, sometimes as late as 4:00am or 5:00am, depending on how many kids have been naughty or nice in a given year.
