Tasked with building Santa's next sleigh, what's your approach to get Santa One off the ice?

No, you don't have to only spend $2000.  Bonus points if you have pictures or CAD models.

Rigid runners are crap for this, gotta go with a nice sleek suspension like you find in Elf:

The polished chrome looks good but you'd need something less apt to freeze your hand to it if Santa somehow forgets to wear gloves.  Combined with weight savings, I'd probably go with a full on carbon fiber tub.  Painted, of course.  Santa's no ricer.

Hydrophobic and ice-phobic coatings would definitely help, along with a built in anti-icing system.

Sadly, I do think an auxilliary power adder would be needed as belief is low.  Antimatter propulsion unit?  Traditional steam powered generator fed by burning the presents of those children too naughty to get them?  R&D is still working.

Latest in GPS, electronic warfare, and stealth capabilities as well.

You don't think the S.C. in scramjet originally stood for 'supersonic combustion', do you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Infinite Improbability Drive was a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without "tedious mucking about in hyperspace."

 

It was discovered by lucky chance and then developed into a governable form of propulsion by the Galactic Government's research centre on Damogran. As soon as the drive reaches infinite Improbability, it passes through every conceivable point in every conceivable universe simultaneously. An incredible range of highly improbable things can happen due to these effects.

I'm going to get some Middle Earth elves to make some reindeer steroids.

Somewhat related to the (probably) Henry Ford quote, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

j_tso said:

I'm going to get some Middle Earth elves to make some reindeer steroids.

Somewhat related to the (probably) Henry Ford quote, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

I work in product development, and "Voice of Customer" is an oft tossed out buzzword. I have learned over the years to be very careful with that data and to heavily factor in who collected it and how.

In reply to DashikiCrowd :

thanks, but i don't need to write an essay about canoes

magic dust, man!

If Santa's sleigh was on a treadmill would it take off?

preach (fs) said:

If Santa's sleigh was on a treadmill would it take off?

Yes, because magic.  Real life, no.