Chapter 60: Idleness and Trivialities

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Wang Likun has returned to China, Nastia and Alexandra are busy with fashion week catwalks, Sheila Clint has not returned to New York, and the major laboratory projects are steadily advancing.

Although it is strange to put all this together, the truth is that Li Jie has a little free time.

Li Jie didn't care about Li Xinyi's careful thoughts, so when she called around in circles to get to know Abigail Percy, Li Jie never showed her tone, and finally succeeded in making her give up the question.

But there was another thing that this little girl said that caught Li Jie's attention: she asked Li Jie why he didn't go on WeChat?

WeChat, a mobile IM (instant_message, instant messaging) that supports cross-communication operators and cross-OS platforms, can quickly send free (requires a small amount of network traffic) voice messages, videos, pictures and texts over the network, and is very popular in China.

Probably because of living habits and concepts, it doesn't have so many users in the United States, and there are a bunch of mobile IMs that compete with it, including WhatsApp, Tango, Viber, Kik, etc.

Of course, for Li Jie, these are the same, he doesn't need it. Because there is no need, from the bottom of his heart, he has no friends, let alone those so-called classmates and old acquaintances in Huaguo. The original Li Jie had WeChat, but he has never been on it since his body changed owners.

Now under Li Xinyi's reminder, Li Jie feels that he seems to have neglected this part too much. In such an era of big data with the rapid development of networks and mobile communications, it is undoubtedly unwise to abandon these mass-oriented applications. The reason why he has always maintained a high profile is precisely because he understands the importance of publicity and packaging, especially when the research projects of the Corona Company are presented to the world, which is conducive to building the image of himself or the Corona scientific and technological elite, the national idol, and the pioneer of the times.

It seems that it is necessary to arrange a person to take care of these social apps for himself. Li Jie casually took out his mobile phone, downloaded a WeChat, entered the account password to open it, and was immediately flooded with a flood of information - who made him not be on it for half a year.

A slight glance at it, most of them were greetings and concerns from Li Jie's former classmates and friends, or inquiries about his current identity. These people have greetings, doubts, and blame Li Jie for not recognizing old friends, which is very lively. Li Jie resisted the urge to delete these people from the address book, opened the backstage of the account, frowned and deleted all the disease-free ** and bizarre pictures sent by the original owner, and then casually uploaded a few photos on his mobile phone, such as a photo with Gal Gadot attending a banquet and attending a fashion week.

Of course, these were all sent to him by his women.

Then Li Jie quit WeChat.

Citi's loan went well, and I don't know if there was any Rowell Lockheed working in it, but Archibald had already said that the funds would be available within a week. Therefore, taking advantage of the free time in these two days, Li Jie has put one thing he has wanted to do on the agenda - buy his own private car.

In the United States, one of the most important means of transportation is the car, and the other is the airplane. How prosperous is private jet flight in the United States, a few sets of data can clearly show: in the field of general aviation in the United States, private jets account for 66% of the total number of general aviation aircraft, reaching more than 300,000; General aviation aircraft in the United States fly more than 28 million hours per year, while private jets account for more than 60% of the total flight hours. There are about 19,000 airports in the United States, of which 540 are large airports used by airlines, accounting for only about 3%. There are 5,400 public airports that can be used by private and commercial partners, and the rest are all purely private and community airports.

Americans have the right to use almost all airspace without government approval, or even for the government to know who is flying and where, and without paying royalties (except for a small tax on jet fuel). Americans have the right to use any civilian airport on a first-come, first-served basis.

Looking to buy a private jet? The only thing you need to do is to register with the Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A.), accept the regular safety monitoring of mechanics sent by the Federal Aviation Administration, register and complete various procedures, and you can fly at will. Of course, the average person needs to consider the maintenance cost of the aircraft, which usually accounts for about 10% of the price of the aircraft every year.

This undoubtedly provides great convenience for the wealthy, and even the emergence of a residential aviation town (residential_airpark) like Florida spruce_creek, in a beautiful, quiet and secluded villa residential area, there are houses of different styles, and each house has one or more planes parked in front of the door, these are the private cars of the owners of the community. The avenue in front of the house is neat and wide, and leads to a well-repaired airstrip adjacent to the neighborhood, where planes take off or land from time to time, and flying a plane is as convenient as driving, and there are probably hundreds of such residential aviation towns in the United States.

Of course, most of these are still small planes, with propellers in the majority, which is not in the scope of Li Jie's consideration, after all, he has to fly a relatively long distance, not to mention New York to Los Angeles, and may fly to all parts of the world in the future.

At the beginning, Flower suggested that the Bombardier Global Express or Gulfstream series was the Bombardier Global Express, but Li Jie denied it after a detailed understanding, anyway, there is no need to worry about the price, why not make his air car more relaxed. In the end, he included two models in his reference range, the Boeing 747-8VIP and the Airbus A380. The best feature of these two models can be summed up in one sentence: the former dominated this record for 37 years with the two highest passenger capacities in the world, and it was not until the latter came out that it gave way. Without a doubt, these two aircraft are equally the largest and most expensive.

In fact, Li Jie's first consideration was Lockheed Martin, an arms predator who is also a good at building aircraft, but it is mainly aimed at military products, such as the current ace model of the US military-F22 Raptor fighter, this heavy stealth fighter is Lockheed Martin's fist product, although the production line has now been closed.

Given the delicate relationship between Lee Jay and Lowell Lockheed, he had to abandon the idea of having the company bespoke for himself, which would happen sooner or later.

The luxurious Boeing 787 business jet took Li Jie and Flower and their party lightly over the Cascade Range, and the colors of the ground below gradually changed from the colorful colors of California to pure white and iron black. After a while, when you see the coastline, Seattle is looming in the mountains.

For most ordinary people, it's a city it's known for its movies — most famously, "Sleepless in Seattle" (sleepless_in_seattle).

Seattle, located in Washington state, is not as noisy as most major cities in the United States, and the city's architectural styles are diverse but harmonious, and it looks a bit like a Nordic city. Walking down the street, the most common sight is the street store of Starbucks, which is based here, and the passers-by who come and go are not very talkative and hurried, most of them are employees of the city's financial and IT companies, the most famous of which is Microsoft.

In Seattle, you'll often hear the phrase that as a Seattleman, there must be at least one person in your family who is either employed by Microsoft or Boeing. These two companies are not only two industry leaders in the United States, but also the economic backbone and business card of the city of Seattle.

The former Li Jie has just met the founder at AACR's fashion charity dinner, and the latter is his destination today. Although Boeing has moved its headquarters away from here to Chicago, Illinois, its largest civil aircraft manufacturing headquarters is still here, located in Snohomich County, 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Seattle, with Penn Airport nearby.

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