When you get down to it, the whole thing is really pretty simple as we all find out from an elf named Buddy. It's not the reindeer or robots or gas powered secret vehicles. "Christmas spirit is what makes your sleigh fly," the tall elf says to Santa Claus while hanging out in a workshop at the North Pole.
Just like a car needs a battery to help kick start the engine, Santa's sleigh also carries a battery to switch on the sleigh's magnetic field. Rather than using a lithium-based battery (which won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019), Santa and his elves have opted for an advanced recyclable sodium-based battery.
In “Elf”, Santa's sleigh gets stuck in Central Park. The sleigh is supported by people's belief in Santa. Because belief has declined, Santa relies on a fancy engine (a Kringle 3000) to help the reindeer fly the sleigh.
Unlike birds, reindeer do not have feathers, but the hairs of Santa's reindeer do have hollow shafts within them. The short hairs close to the reindeers' skin can fluff up to trap air and the longer hairs appear tapered at the ends, making them more aerodynamic. Their antlers have an aerodynamic structure too.
On the Christmas in question, the level of Christmas cheer hit an all-time low and the strain on the jet engine mount was too great and it broke off. Without the jet engine, Santa's sleigh crashed.
Even though it might not seem obvious, CGI was used in some parts of the film — including the snowball scene. Naturally, the miraculously long throw during this scene was CGI, as were any snowballs you didn't see thrown by someone.
The first and most important rule is that you must NOT touch your Elf. If you do, they will lose all their magic - and nobody wants that to happen. When scout elves lose their magic, they can't go about their Christmas duties. This means no presents for anyone in your family!
Reindeer, it seems, just loved Amanita muscaria, or Fly Agaric, as it is better known. They could be led around by the nose, as it were, just by sprinkling pieces of the mushroom in front of them.
Q: Can reindeer really fly? A: Most reindeer can't fly, but Santa's reindeer are special. Because they're magic, they can fly very high and very far without getting tired.
At the very least, Arthur wrote, Santa's sleigh and reindeer are references back to various related Northern European mythology. For example, the Norse god Thor (known in German as "Donner") flew in a chariot drawn by two goats, which have been replaced in the modern retelling by Santa's reindeer, Arthur wrote.
Everyone knows all it takes is a little magic dust to fly. Just ask pixies! Santa and the elves created the top secret formulae for making magic flying dust a long time ago. Reindeer are perfect to pull the sleigh because they like the cold weather where Santa lives and they are very strong!
In order to produce enough lift to fly during Santa's Christmas Eve journey, the sleigh would have to move at about 10 times the speed of sound — 12,300 miles per hour. Santa's sleigh would need a pair of wings similar to those on a commercial airplane.
Before we get into naming all of them, let's get one thing straight—Santa has a total of nine reindeer pulling his sleigh. The legendary names are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and (drum roll) Rudolph.
He flies at a constant speed (900 km/h) and altitude (10 km). His ground speed (speed relative to the surface of the Earth) takes the wind into account. It increases with a tailwind and decreases with a headwind, and Santa also compensates for crosswinds.
What route does Santa travel? Santa usually starts at the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean and travels west. So, historically, Santa visits the South Pacific first, then New Zealand and Australia.
The first known written account of reindeer in association with Santa Claus occurred in 1821 when a New York printer published a booklet titled “A New Year's Present.” Reindeer are then mentioned as driving Santa through the frosty night. In 1823, the Troy Sentinel published the poem “A Visit From St.
Even so, covering this distance in 34 hours is certainly no mean feat. Crunching the figures, we get a speed of 4,705,882km/h, far slower than the speed of light, but still fast enough that the air resistance is likely to vaporise Santa, along with all the children's gifts… if he wasn't riding a magic sleigh.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
26) In the TV special Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970), which vegetable makes reindeer fly? Winter's last magical tool, his Magic Feed Corn, allows Santa's reindeer friends to fly.
Unfortunately, we've been straining our ears in vain - short of invoking a little bit of seasonal magic, reindeer don't fly. Reindeer don't fly because they do not have the physical apparatus necessary to facilitate such a feat.
Rudolph and her reindeer companions do have one very enviable trait though: they can fly. At first glance reindeer would not appear to be physiologically suited to flight. But it's possible reindeer have gone one better than aerodynamics – antlerdynamics.
If your elf didn't move, they may be trying to communicate an important message to you! If your elf is accidentally touched, they may have just enough energy to get to the North Pole but not enough magic to create a whole new scene in your home.