Santa's Flight Readiness Review It is a little known fact that even Santa must keep his pilot's license current in order to make his deliveries every year. And so, the old man wasn't too surprised when he got a letter from the FAA informing him that an examiner would be appearing shortly to run him through the usual re-certification drill. Santa immediately dispatched a detail of elves to wash and polish the sleigh, another group was assigned to inspect, service, and repair all the tack, and a t

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The FAA has a device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. They point this thing at the windshield of the aircraft and shoot a dead chicken at about the speed the air- craft normally flies at it. If the windshield doesn't break, it's likely to survive a real collision with a bird during flight. The British had recently built a new locomotive that could pull a train faster than any before it. They were not sure that its windshield was strong enough so they borrowed the testing dev

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