Since he came, he would not leave easily, and Lockheed very considerately found a hotel near the company, which is where Alice has lived these days. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As for daily life, of course, it is to work with the R&D team of YF-22, and the first thing Alice needs to do is to get familiar with the work.

It is worth mentioning that Lockheed is not a small company, nor is it as highly integrated as an Internet company, as a heavy industry enterprise that will develop many military projects at the same time, its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, is really just a headquarters.

Therefore, the thirty people who had a meeting with Alice when she first arrived at the company were just senior executives in the entire R&D team. Since Oren Lockheed has long been arranged, they are all specialized

As for the development site of the YF-22, it is in an empty town in northern Maryland, on the verge of Pennsylvania. Of course, that entire factory area is not converted to the research and development of the YF-22, or Lockheed's military aircraft research and development center, but it is also the place where the relevant person in charge works every day. If it hadn't been for Oren Lockheed's arrangement a day in advance, how could the thirty executives get together?

Just as Microsoft also needs to rely on a team of 200 people to spend years in development, from theoretical research to model design, from field trials to factory production, the number of people in the entire YF-22 R&D team is also hundreds of huge teams.

In the same way, even in the field of avionics, which requires Alice to be in charge, Lockheed has long had a team of 50 programmers, and as for the team leader, of course, he met with Alice as early as the initial meeting. So, after Alice had spoken to the entire R&D team of thirty people, she was ready to go to the town, which was forty miles away from Bethesda, led by Andrio, the leader of the avionics team.

Forty miles away, all it takes is Andrio to drive his Chevrolet pickup and run wild. So according to the plan, Alice, who does not have a driver's license, will sit in his car, listen to the song while chatting, and after an hour's drive, she can reach her destination.

On the day of departure, the weather was a little gloomy, it looked like it could rain at any time, and the temperature was extremely cold. According to the weather forecast, moderate to heavy rain could fall at any time throughout Maryland today and tomorrow, and sunny days will not arrive until at least the weekend, and there will be a long time to come.

So, when Alice saw her greeter at the door of the hotel, she couldn't help but grin.

"I said Leo, can you not be so peasant?"

She looked at the pickup truck with disgust and said: "I actually covered the container with canvas, how do I feel that I don't feel like I'm going to the company's branch to work, but like accompanying my old father to buy agricultural supplies?"

It's really a good pickup, not even the kind of high-end pickup truck worth tens of thousands of dollars, but a genuine "pickup truck". Lo and behold, the tires are obviously second-hand, the paint hasn't been sprayed for some time, and the rumble of the engine feels like it's going to be clogged with grease. Alice even wondered if the reason why the truck box was covered was that there was really a cart of piglets inside.

Andrio was also blushed by her, and coughed awkwardly: "I've been driving this car for seven or eight years, and you're the first to make such an evaluation." ”

No way, Alice's analogy is indeed appropriate, he is already forty-five years old, he happens to have a beard again, and at this time he is wearing light denim, sweaters and casual clothes, and he really looks like an old American rural farmer who is preparing to deliver goods.

Alice, of course, meant laughter. Today's weather is a little cold, and she is not wearing less, dark and shiny high-end leather boots, American versatile denim trousers, and a white cotton jacket that is not thin or thick, which just sets off the white and tender face and is ruddy and translucent. With her hands in her pockets, she scurried into the truck.

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

"I'm sure those boys would die laughing in their dreams!"

As soon as the truck drove out of Bethesda, Andrio said in a rough voice: "The founder of Cisco!, the developer is actually going to join our YF-22 avionics research and development! This is a great genius sent to the door, Oren's kid is really good at vision, and he knows what kind of talent we lack the most!"

"I think it's a way to send warmth to the boys. ”

Alice pursed her lips and looked out the window: "Andrio, tell me honestly, how many women are there in the entire YF-22 research and development team?"

This seems to be a difficult question, but as soon as the truck was speeding up on the highway, Andelio frowned with great difficulty, and replied for a long time: "Except for Susan and Zedo, that is, Alice and Melissa." Oh yes Alice, we have a colleague with the same name as you!"

As if she had a heart in her heart, a chill suddenly came, and Alice trembled: "That Alice can't be a fat woman, right?"

"That's not it, a thirty-five-year-old single female doctor, weighing ...... One hundred and thirty-five pounds?"

"Well, she's certainly not my future anyway. ”

As she spoke, Alice was looking around.

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

The Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan area, which straddles Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, is a region that binds the destinies of many people, and its economic category and living environment are also very different from California.

"The political center, with the SAR as the focus, the governors and senators of the northern and southern states, with this highly urbanized layout, are full of big people. Well, should we say that it is the same type as Beijing? Seemingly...... It's similar, it's different. ”

For more than a decade, Alice hadn't really been around Washington, D.C., and at most had just been to Manhattan, New York. At this moment, she was staying in a city only 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.

It is no wonder that the so-called escape from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but when the economic strength reaches a certain level, no country's capital area can be small. It's just that Beijing's urban planning, functional zoning, and satellite city construction have to be poor due to historical factors.

Don't look at the size of Washington, D.C., but it was just an early arrival of urbanization, and in terms of real area, the capital of the United States and the capital of China are actually the same size.

Think about it, Washington, D.C. is worthy of the name of the Special Administrative Region, and its own area is even 100 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of Beijing.

It's just that unlike Beijing, which is a whole megacity, the U.S. government, as a top developed country, has long divided the functional area of the capital into countless satellite cities. Ring Road 495 is about 100 kilometers long and includes several cities, including Washington, D.C., and is equivalent to Beijing's Fifth Ring Road. The only difference is that Beijing's 5th Ring Road is equivalent to a suburb, while Highway 495 runs through a larger metropolitan area.

"Hey, Alice, Alice!"

Seeing the girl in the co-pilot looking like he was wandering in the sky, Andrio spent a long time talking but found that the audience had long since lost their souls.

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

Andrio smiled wryly and shook his head: "I was about to ask you, what school are you studying in now? My son should be admitted to high school in a while, you are a typical role model." ”

Out of resentment about being invited to sit in a "cargo pickup", Alice said lightly: "I go to Eton College, let your son work hard." ”

"Uh......"

Forty miles is not a long distance, and an hour later, as the clouds in the sky thickened, Pikaschran passed by a sign that read, "Welcome to the town of Walker." Population: 1987,894. ”

It's a very small town, almost entirely the territory of the Lockheed Military Aircraft Research and Development Center, and it is.

You must know that the research and development of military aircraft is not a matter that can be effective in a short period of time, whether it is YF-22 or other projects, many employees live directly here. According to Andrio, the real local residents here basically work in restaurants and bars, in order to give Lockheed employees a place to eat and have fun.

"It's like those typical colonies when Mayflower first came to America. ”

Seeing Alice's curiosity, Andrio explained, "You should know about Skunk Works, that's our earliest military aircraft research and development center, right on the Burbank Plains. Construction of this one began in '65, and it was originally a location directly designated by the Pentagon. According to the bureaucrats, if the R&D base is placed at their doorstep, it is convenient for them to come and inspect the progress of the project at any time. ”

"Yes, yes, of course I know about Skunk Works, it was built in four or three years, and Disney helped disguise it as a residential area in the first place. ”

After all, the town is not big, so it didn't take a few words for the pickup truck to arrive at the R&D center. It is a factory site built on a vast open field, surrounded by barbed wire, and on one side of the road is a large single building, in front of which many cars are parked.

"The back is the factory area, and the front is the office, let me take you to meet your colleagues. (To be continued.) )