Chapter 214: Where's Our Plane!
The successful trial voyage of the Rise of the Master Company has made the world lose color again! Or rather, some fear!
Several countries that had just successfully tested the space shuttle were suddenly cheering, and there were even some deeper despairs.
Jack Smith, a veteran in his 50s and the most experienced man with the nation's national airline today, was deployed here ten days ago to a newly established airline base in the remote suburbs of Philadelphia. No, to be exact, there is only a 500-meter-wide piece of flat land, and there are several warehouses and a huge crane.
Here, the construction time is only three days, and the application of modern technology and a large number of construction machinery makes the time and speed of engineering construction faster and faster. However, this does not make Jack any pride, such a project, in today's era, a small private company can do, there is really no technical content. The only difference is that the ground is very thick, with reinforced concrete floors up to three meters thick. Because, this is the place where the United States docks supplies with master companies!
Yes, after negotiations, this will be the only legal landing site for the space shuttle Dream in the United States, and of course, the materials sent to space by the United States will also be gathered here, packed into standard 70-ton packages with two pointed ends, put on the back of the dream plane, carried into space, and handed over to the space base of their own country.
And today at 3:10 a.m., it is the time for the arrival of the space shuttle Dream of the master company!
"Damn politicians! Damn the master company! Why don't you die! Jack led his men and was busy with the tension.
I thought that there was a 13-hour difference between EST and Huaxia time, and the working hours of the master company were Huaxia time, so the result was: the plane in Huaxia will take off at 10 pm, but here in the United States it is already early in the morning! In fact, the United States did not think about asking master companies to change the start time of getting off the plane. However, the master company rejected the "good intentions" of the United States with employees tired and safety first, even if the United States was willing to pay an extra $10,000 for labor costs.
As a result, the base of the small spaceport, which was named the small spaceport, is now brightly lit, surrounded by high-powered sodium lamps, and the strong light allows the plants to thrive at night.
It's just that there is another fact that makes Jack so angry, and that is that the shipping cost of the master company is calculated according to the entire packaged package, not the contents of the package! This package is all made of titanium alloy, and in order to make these titanium alloy packages, the United States spent a full 50 million dollars! Even so, such a package still reaches a dead weight of 3 tons, and only 67 tons of materials can be stored inside!
50,000 yuan per kilogram, up to 50 million per ton is equivalent to 10 million US dollars, and the cost of transportation is as high as 700 million US dollars! Every time he sees this number, Old Jack has to make his eyelids straight! Abominable times, abominable politicians, damn China!
$700 million! How good would it be if it could be used to improve people's livelihood in the country? Americans in this era can only know from the mouths of their elders that the glory of the past! The current United States, with a population of 800 million people, has embarked on the road of development in China, coupled with the relatively slow development of the United States in recent years, the rise of other countries in the world, is slowly encroaching on the American hunting market, and now the United States has greatly shrunk.
Just last month, those Cuban monkeys, with the support of the countries of the East, dared to forcibly inspect the great American freighter! While cursing this, Jack was working hard. There are too many Americans nowadays to use up, and if they can't do this job themselves, they will inevitably be replaced by others! It's a job that requires waking up in the middle of the night, but that's it, it pays well and it's easy. Perhaps, if the state can't pay a huge price to the master company, maybe there will be unlimited holidays!
But there's still a little bit of unhappiness - you have to be able to speak Chinese! Speaking of this Jack, he has to be rude again, his own young age, that is the world of Americans and English; And now, in the United States, you have to learn to speak Chinese, otherwise people will not bird you...... Well, now the three Chinese characters of "no bird you" have become the mantra of American youth!
Fortunately, two days ago, the country released new news that the new generation of space shuttle with ground take-off, which was completely designed and developed by the United States itself, was finally successfully tested. Although the fly in the ointment is that the engine uses the K01 engine of the master company. However, with the master company's Zhuyu in front, it is said that the engine developed by the United States itself has also reached a critical moment to tackle key problems, and it may be available next month. However, Jack, who is in his 50s, is not one of those young people, so he naturally added the next sentence in his heart: maybe it won't be available in ten years!
But fortunately, my country finally has its own space shuttle, although only for the testing stage. However, in the middle of the night today, it was already 3 o'clock in the morning, and the small airport was undergoing the final exercise training.
It's just a message that pops up on the Internet, which makes Jack's expression of excitement just now, drop to the freezing point in an instant!
It was -- a picture from a German satellite! A set of pictures, to be exact!
A commentator is explaining with a smile: "At 13:55 local time in China, the super-large space shuttle developed by the master company for two years was successfully tested!"
The space shuttle, named Rise, suffered a huge blow during the development process, which caused the world-famous Japanese space disaster.
But today, the master company still successfully tested a new generation of space shuttles.
According to expert predictions, from today, the space age will enter the thousand-ton era, and we are fortunate to live in such an era and witness the birth of an era.
The age of steam made England; The electric age created the United States, and now it seems that the aerospace era may favor the Chinese ......"
Looking at the narrator's gushing explanation, Jack only felt a cloud of ice appear in his mind. The once huge United States, in the space age, finally let the East catch up! Jack, who received an elite education in the United States since he was a child, understands that when a new era comes, there will inevitably be wars - the Cold War is also a kind of war!
Never an exception!
Well, at this time, what about our planes?
Looking at the brightly lit small spaceport ahead, the landing and take-off place specially built for the master company Dream aircraft, with a lot of markings in Chinese and English, an inexplicable crisis entangled in Jack's heart. Are you, former superpowers, sick?
There are many more countries that are also on the lookout! Looking at the huge plane on the screen, although the master company has not made any explanation for this space shuttle marked with "Rise", but with a few words, with analysis, and some information on the official website of the master company, everyone has a clear understanding: thousand-ton spacecraft!
The master company has opened a new era with its own efforts!