"Boss, I don't have to think about it anymore. We can sign the contract tomorrow."

The captain's double salary, plus the pension, is 3.4 times the compensation.

A fool doesn't do it.

For Li Changheng, the type who normally hires a private captain is usually the one who has been in the industry for many years, has rich enough experience, and has no mistakes.

But such people have to pay double the salary.

Not necessarily enough.

After all, if they have been in the aviation field for many years, they may be able to enter the management level.

And they also have pensions when they are in the airline.

It’s still the moment they die.

It is equivalent to Li Changheng paying their future pension in one lump sum when Jim and the others retire.

If anyone lives in a few years, he will make a profit.

If anyone can live another thirty years and die until 90, he will definitely suffer a loss.

Of course, if I used that pension to buy a pension fund in the 1990s, I would have made a profit.

Or if you are lucky and buy stocks from companies like Microsoft, you can still experience the life of a rich man when you are old.

But if you buy stocks from companies like Netscape, you may directly have a heart attack.

Back at the wooden villa on the farm outside Richmond, when Lee Changheng went to wash, Jim looked at Blade and Stabanks and said, "Can I call?"

Banks was stunned and soon realized that the middle-aged man in front of him was indeed just an ordinary person except for the astronaut identity.

After getting the approval, Jim called his two companions.

A monthly salary of 3,000 is equal to the five-month level of middle-income earners in New York in this era.

With the retirement reward, Jack and Fred, who were not planning to retire so soon, had to carefully consider this matter.

The only thing that worries them is that no one knows whether the new boss will always be rich in the next 20 years.

Jim frowned and thought, "Guys, don't you have to face the same choice when you retire and look for a job in a few years?

Moreover, not to mention anything else, the 5-month consultant reward alone is 25,000 yuan, plus the 50,000 yuan bonus once the boss successfully lands on the moon.

Such a generous and powerful boss is not worth your efforts?"

"this,,."

The result of the matter was that Fred, who had no ambitions, agreed without much consideration.

Only Jack, who is responsible for the spacecraft, said he would wait until January next year to consider it.

This basically means rejection.

Li Changheng didn't care, because flight engineers were actually the easiest to recruit.

Hiring Jack was just to form a three-person advisory group.

One more person who has successfully boarded the spacecraft is equivalent to one more successful experience package.

After taking a shower, Li Changheng, wearing a T-shirt and trousers, waved his hand with a smile after listening to Jim's reply.

He said deliberately, "It's okay, man, it's normal for someone to be unable to live without flying."

Jim breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

At the same time, I also feel that my new boss is not as difficult as I imagined.

"Boss, we will start now and start the theoretical knowledge training tomorrow after overloading the test?"

"Tell me about how you became a pilot, how you were selected by Nasa, and there are also interesting stories and experiences about entering space four times."

"No problem", seeing that the atmosphere was very harmonious, Jim smiled and took the ice beer thrown by Li Changheng.

Then, under the gaze of Li Changheng, Blade and Banks, he began to tell his 18-year pilot career.

He graduated from Naval School at the age of 24 and was sent to the aircraft carrier with the first grade and the rank of lieutenant.

At the age of 28, he was sent to take the test pilot training and graduated with the first place half a year later.

Then he stayed in the position of test pilot for 4 years, and then participated in the Mercury program astronaut selection.

I have been here for more than 8 years.

In other words, this guy has been dealing with planes in his first half of his life, which is simply a super experience package in flight.

At nine o'clock the next morning, Li Changheng took a bus to the overload test site of the base.

I saw the astronaut director named Dick Reston again.

The two of them communicated with their eyes, and Li Changheng was taken to have a heart and lung examination first.

At 10:30 in the morning, he was wearing a pilot's suit and sat on an overload instrument that he had already sat on.

It is a spherical simulated cab connected by a long metal pole.

Put on your seat belt and give a thumbs up at the console.

The countdown sound came from the radio.

Overload tests are actually high-speed flight tests such as swift turn and dive.

And the time is not as long as you imagined, and it is usually calculated in seconds.

Based on the advanced level of the machine at this time, it takes about 10 seconds to accelerate to about 9g.

In other words, the longer you persist, the faster the acceleration and the greater the overload.

Just like a vehicle that is suddenly started, the human body will automatically lean back, and then multiply this speed by 5 times or 6 times. The skin will not keep up with the rotation speed like someone stretching it and begin to deform.

When it reaches 8 or 9g, the eyeballs will still have obvious bulges.

Once the body's tolerance limit is exceeded, the tester will fall into an unconscious coma.

Then, once you slow down, you can wake up within a few seconds.

Moreover, he himself didn't know that he had signs of falling into a coma during the test.

Of course, this is a pilot with excellent physical fitness, so this is how it is.

A poor talented person will show signs of coma, and once the speed slows down for a few seconds, it will be in danger of life.

However, those who do this kind of test will definitely start to improve little by little.

Once people show signs of coma, they will definitely not have the chance to test higher speeds.

Li Changheng's test results were not surprising. When 10 seconds reached 9 g, it was the speed stabilizer for ten seconds.

Test whether he will not be able to hold on with this overload.

After all, when flying a fighter, the rapid state cannot be one second or two seconds.

Many times it takes about ten seconds.

When the ten-second steady-state speed period is entered, everyone in the control room is staring at the surveillance screen.

Then the chronograph jumped to 9 seconds, and before everyone expected the limit record to appear, the officer in charge of the test.

That is, the bearded man Li Changheng scolded, pressed the slowdown button in 10 seconds.

Ignore the dissatisfaction or regretful gaze of the people present.

The test supervisor said to the headphones, "Captain Henry Lee, are there any discomfort or something special?"

Li Changheng frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "How many seconds does it take to accelerate to 10g?"

"12 seconds, then the same 10-second speed stabilization period."

The people in the control room were all nervous and expectantly waiting for the sound in the headphones.

"Jim, did anyone of the astronauts you know have persisted for 22 seconds in the test?"

Jim looked up at Dick Reston.

"The maximum limit should be 23 seconds, which is 10.5g."

"Ok", Li Changheng thought silently for a few seconds, "15-second acceleration and 10-second steady speed period."

"Are you sure?"

The officer in charge of the test immediately looked at the metal balls in the test site through the glass.

In 15 seconds, it will accelerate to around 11.5g. If the machine uses centrifugal force, it will easily reach 12g.
Chapter completed!