The Goddess Shines on America

Now that he is here, he will not leave easily. Lockheed looked for a hotel near the company very considerately. This is the residence of Alice in the past few days. As for daily life, of course, it is to work with the yf-22 R&D team, and the first thing Alice has to do is to get acquainted with the work.

It is worth mentioning that Lockheed is not a small company, nor is it highly integrated like an Internet company. As a heavy industry company that develops many military projects at the same time, it is located at its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. It's just a headquarters.

So, when Alice first arrived at the company, the thirty people who had a meeting together were just senior-level figures in the entire R&D team. Since Oren Lockheed has made arrangements, they are all dedicated

As for the yf-22 research and development location, it is in northern Maryland, on the edge of an empty town in Pennsylvania. Of course, the entire factory area was not set up for the R&D of Yf-22, it was Lockheed's military aircraft R&D center, but it was also the place where the relevant person in charge worked every day. If it weren't for Oren Lockheed to arrange one day in advance, how could the thirty managements gather together?

Just as when Microsoft was developing windows.nt, it also needed a team of two hundred people for several years. From theoretical research to model design, from field testing to factory production, the number of people in the entire yf-22 R&D team is also counted. Hundreds of large teams.

In the same way, even in the avionics field that Alice is responsible for, Lockheed has already had a team of 50 programmers. As for the team leader, of course, he played with Alice as early as the initial meeting. I've seen each other. So, after Alice had talked with the thirty people of the entire R&D team, under the leadership of the avionics team leader Andrio, she prepared to head to this small town forty miles away from Bethesda. on.

For a distance of forty miles, Andrea only needs to drive his Chevrolet pickup and run all the way. Therefore, according to the plan, Alice, who does not yet have a driver’s license, will sit in his car, listen to a small song while chatting, and mix in for an hour’s drive to reach the destination.

On the day of departure, the weather was slightly gloomy, it looked like it might rain at any time, and the temperature was also extremely cold. According to the weather forecast, it may rain moderately to heavy in the whole of Maryland at any time today and tomorrow, and the sunny weather will not arrive until at least the weekend.

Therefore, when Alice saw her greeter at the entrance of the hotel, she couldn't help grinning.

"I said Leo, can you not be such a farmer?"

She looked at Picka with disgust and said: "I actually covered the cargo box with canvas, how come I feel that I don't feel like going to a branch of the company, but like buying agricultural supplies with my old father?"

It's a really good pickup truck, not even a high-end pickup that is worth tens of thousands of dollars, but a genuine "pickup". Take a look, the tires are obviously second-hand, and the paint has not been sprayed for a long time, and the rumble of the engine has a feeling of being clogged with grease. Alice even suspected that the reason why the truck box had to be covered was because it was a piglet with a truck inside it?

Andrio was flushed with her words, and coughed embarrassingly: "I have been driving this car for seven or eight years, and you are the first to comment this way."

No way, Alice’s analogy is indeed appropriate. He happened to have a beard again at the age of forty-five. At this time, he was wearing a brisk cowboy and sweater casual clothes, and he really looked like an old American farmer preparing to ship goods.

Alice, of course, means to laugh. It was a bit cold today, and she didn't wear less, high-end leather boots with shiny black hair, all-match American denim trousers, and a white padded jacket that was not thin or thick on her upper body, which just made her white face rosy and translucent. With her hands in her pockets, she hurriedly ran into the truck as she was suffering from the slight cold weather.

Well, the truck, the beautiful girl and the old farmer's father are ready to return home...

"I'm sure, those guys can laugh to death in their dreams!"

As soon as the truck left Bethesda, Andrio said in a rough voice: "The founder of Cisco! The developers of windows 1.0, actually want to join our yf-22 avionics research and development! This is The great genius who came to the door, that boy Oren really has a good eye, knowing what kind of talent we need most!"

"I think it's bringing warmth to the boys."

Alice pursed her mouth in joy, looking at the scenery outside the window: "Andrio, tell me honestly, how many women are there in the entire yf-22 R&D team?"

This seems to be a really difficult question. When the truck just got up on the high speed, he saw Andrio frowning very hard, and it took a long time to answer: "Except for Susan and Zedo, that is, Alice and May. Lisa. Oh it's Alice, we have a colleague with the same name as you!"

As if she had a good heart, a feeling of cold suddenly came, and Alice shook for a moment: "Is that Alice a fat woman?"

"That's not true, a thirty-five-year-old single female doctor who weighs... one hundred and thirty-five pounds?"

"Well, she is definitely not my future anyway."

While talking, Alice was also looking around.

For many years, Alice grew up in Los Angeles. The so-called Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area is not a display. The whole sunny California is full of vibrant atmosphere. Of course, its highly developed economy is constantly attracting talents from all over the country and even the world.

But here is the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan area, which is different from California in the greater Los Angeles area. This area spans Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. It can be regarded as the fate of many people. They are all tied together, and their economic category and living environment are completely different from California.

"The political center, with the special economic zone as the focal point, the governors and senators of the two northern and southern states, with such a highly urbanized layout, are full of big shots. Well, should it be the same type as Beijing? Looks like...similar It's different too."

For more than ten years, Alice hasn't been around Washington DC very much, at most she went to Manhattan, New York to play. At this moment, she was staying in a city just a few miles away from the capital, surrounded by countless satellite cities and residential areas, which really made her want to compare with the capital of her hometown.

No stranger's so-called fleeing from Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, is that when the economic strength reaches a certain level, no country has a smaller capital. It's just that because of historical factors, Beijing's urban planning, functional zoning, and satellite city construction have to be poor.

Regardless of the small area of ​​Washington, DC, it is just that urbanization has arrived earlier. From the perspective of real area, the size of the capital of the United States and the capital of China are actually the same.

Come to think about it, Washington DC deserves the name of the DC. It has an area of ​​one hundred square kilometers. If it is replaced by Beijing, it is equivalent to the area within the second ring road.

It's just that it is different from Beijing, an entire super metropolis, including everything else. As a top developed country, the US government has long divided the capital functional area into countless satellite cities. The 495 ring road is about 100 kilometers long and includes many cities, including Washington, D.C. It happens to be equivalent to Beijing's Fifth Ring Road. The only difference is that Beijing's Fifth Ring Road is equivalent to the suburbs, while Highway 495 runs through a larger metropolitan area.

"Hey, Alice? Alice!"

Seeing the girl in the co-pilot wandering around the sky, Andrio spent a long time talking, but found that the audience had already lost their souls.

"Huh? Oh, Leo, what did you just say?"

Andrio smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I was just about to ask you, which school are you studying at now? My son should also take the high school exam in a while. You are a typical role model."

Out of resentment of being invited to sit in a "cargo pickup truck," Alice said lightly, "I'm going to Eton College. Let your son come on."

"Uh……"

Forty miles is not a long distance. One hour later, when the dark clouds in the sky became denser, Picash Shiran passed a sign that read "Welcome to Walker Town. Population: 1987,894."

This is a small town, almost entirely the site of the Lockheed Military Aircraft Research and Development Center, and it is indeed the case.

You know, military aircraft research and development is not something that can be effective in a short time, whether it is yf-22 or other projects~www.readwn.com~, many employees live here directly. According to Andrio's introduction, the real local residents here have basically started jobs like restaurants and bars, in order to give Lockheed employees a place to eat and entertain.

"Like the typical colonies when Mayflower first came to America."

Seeing Alice’s curiosity, Andrio explained: “You should know the Skunk Factory. It was our earliest military aircraft research and development center, located on the Burbank Plains. Now this one was built in six to five years. , From the very beginning, it was the location directly designated by the Pentagon. According to the bureaucrats, if the R&D base is placed at their doorstep, it will be convenient for them to check the progress of the project at any time."

"Yes, yes, of course I know that the Skunk Factory was established in four or three years. Disney helped disguise it as a residential area."

After all, the town is not big, so the pickup truck arrived at the R&D center without a few words of effort. This is a factory area built on a vast open space. I don't know how many acres of land are fenced by barbed wire. The side facing the highway is a huge single building with many cars parked in front of it.

"Behind is the factory area, and the front is the office. Let me show you to meet my colleagues." (To be continued.)