Since he came, he would not leave easily. Lockheed was very considerate and found a hotel near the company. This is Alice's residence in the past few days. As for daily life, of course, it is to work with the R&D team of yf-22, and Alice's first thing to do is to be 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 can develop many military projects at the same time, its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland is really just a headquarters.

So, 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 had already made arrangements, they all specialize in

As for the development location of the yf-22, it is in northern Maryland, near an open town in Pennsylvania. Of course, that entire factory was either converted to the development of the yf-22, or Lockheed's military aircraft R&D center, but it is also the daily workplace of the relevant person in charge. If Oren Lockheed had not arranged it one day in advance, how could the thirty management teams gather together?

Just as Microsoft also needed to rely on a team of 200 people to take several years when developing Windows NT, from theoretical research to model design, from field experiments to factory production, the number of people in the entire YF-22 R&D team is also hundreds of huge teams.

Similarly, even in the avionics field where Alice is responsible, Lockheed has already had a team of programmers of fifty people. As for the team leader, of course, he met Alice as early as the initial meeting. So, when Alice talked with thirty people from the entire R&D team, she was led by Andrio, the leader of the avionics group, and prepared to go to this small town, which is forty miles away from Bethesda.

Forty miles, Andrio only needs to drive his Chevrolet pickup and run all the way. So according to the plan, Alice, who has no driver's license, has to sit in his car, listen to the song and chat with her little kids. After an hour's drive, she can reach her destination.

On the day of departure, the weather was a little gloomy, and it seemed that it might rain at any time, and the temperature was particularly cold. According to the weather forecast, medium to heavy rain may fall in the entire Maryland at any time today and tomorrow, and sunny days will have to wait at least the weekend before they can come. There is still a while.

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

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

She looked at Pika with disgust and said, "I actually covered the cargo box with canvas. Why do I feel like I am not going to work in the company branch, but I am like accompanying my old father to purchase agricultural supplies?"

What a great pickup truck, it is not even a high-end pickup truck worth tens of thousands of dollars, but a real "pickup truck". Look, the tires are obviously second-hand, and the car paint has not been sprayed for a long time, and the rumbling of the engine makes it feel like it is about to be blocked by oil and dirt. Alice even suspected that the reason why the truck box was covered was that it was really a truck of piglets inside, right?

Andrio also blushed when she said it, and coughed awkwardly: "I have been driving this car for seven or eight years, and you are the first to comment on this."

There is no way, Alice's metaphor is indeed appropriate. He is already forty-five years old and is a beard. He is wearing a light denim and casual sweater at this time, and he looks like an old American rural farmer who is preparing to ship goods.

Of course, Alice was just talking and laughing. The weather was a bit cold today, and she wore quite a few black and shiny high-end leather boots, versatile American jeans, and a white cotton jacket that was not thin or thick on the upper body, just making her white and tender face look rosy and translucent. She put her pockets in her hands and was plagued by the slightly cold weather. She quickly got on the truck.

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

"I'm sure those kids can definitely laugh to death if they dream!"

As the truck drove out of Bethesda, Andrio said in a rough voice: "The founder of Cisco! The developer of Windows 10 is also going to join our avionics development of yf-22! This is a great genius who came to the door. That kid Oren has a good vision and knows what kind of talents we lack the most!"

"I think I'm bringing warmth to the young men."

Alice pursed her lips and looked at the view 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 problem. When the truck just started to rush on the highway, Andrio suddenly browned with great difficulty, and after a long time he replied: "Besides Susan and Zedo, they are Alice and Melissa. Oh, it's Alice, we have a colleague who is the same name as you!"

As if he had a heart-to-heart relationship, a chill suddenly came, and Alice shook: "Isn't that Alice a fat woman?"

"That's not, a single female doctor of thirty-five years old, weighing... one hundred and thirty-five pounds?"

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

While talking, Alice was also looking around.

Alice has grown up in Los Angeles for many years. The so-called Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area is not a decoration. The sunshine California is full of vitality. Of course, its highly developed economy is constantly attracting talents from all over the country and even the world.

But this is the Washington-Arlington-Alexander metropolitan area, which is unique to California in the Greater Los Angeles area. This area spans Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia, which can be regarded as binding the fate of many people together, and its economic category and even living environment are completely different from California.

"The political center is that the governors and senators of the two states in the north and south are all over the world with this highly urbanized layout. Well, should I say it is the same type as Beijing? It seems... it is similar and different."

Alice has never been to Washington for more than ten years, and at most she just went to Manhattan, New York to have fun. At this moment, she was staying in a city that was only a few miles away from the capital, and there were countless satellite cities and residential areas around her, which really made her want to compare with the capital of her hometown.

It is not a blaming households for escaping from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. When the economic strength reaches a certain level, no country's capital area can be smaller. It is just that due to historical factors, Beijing has to be poor in its urban planning, functional zoning, and satellite city construction.

Although Washington, DC is not large in size, it is just that urbanization came earlier. From the real area, the capital of the United States and the capital of China are actually of the same size.

Think about it, Washington, DC is worthy of its name. Its own area is even 100 square kilometers. If it were Beijing, it would be equivalent to the area within the Second Ring Road.

It’s just that it’s a whole metropolis, including everything. As a top developed country, the US government has long divided the capital’s functional areas into countless satellite cities. The 495 Ring Road is about 100 kilometers long and includes many cities led by Washington, DC, and it just happens to be equivalent to Beijing’s Fifth Ring Road. The difference is that outside the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing is equivalent to the suburbs, while Highway 495 runs through a larger metropolitan area.

"Hey, Alice? Alice!"

Seeing the girl in the passenger seat looking like she was wandering around the sky, Andrio spent a long time talking and found that the audience had lost their souls.

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

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

Out of resentment of being invited to board a "cargo pickup truck", Alice said lightly: "I went to Eton School, let your son work hard."

"Well……"

Forty miles was not long, and an hour passed, and as the dark clouds in the sky became denser, Pika Shiran passed by a sign that read "Welcome to Walker Town. Population: 1987,894."

This is a very small town, almost entirely the territory of the Lockheed Military Aircraft R&D Center, and it is indeed the case.

You should know that military aircraft development is not something that can be effective in a short period of time. Whether it is the YF-22 or other projects, many employees are directly living here. According to Andrio's introduction, the real local residents here basically work in restaurants and bars, in order to give Lockheed employees a place to eat and enjoy.

"Just like those typical colonies when Mayflower first came to America."

Seeing Alice's curiosity, Andrio explained: "You should know that the Skunk Factory is our earliest military aircraft R&D center, on the Burbank Plain. Now this one started to be built in 60s and 5th years. It was directly designated by the Pentagon. According to those bureaucrats, if the R&D base is placed at the door of the house, it will be very convenient for them to inspect the project progress at any time."

"Yes, yes, I certainly know that the Skunk Factory was established in 40s and 3 years. Disney helped disguise it as a residential area."

After all, the town is not big, so in a few words, the pickup truck arrived at the R&D center. This is a factory area built on a vast open space. There are countless acres of land surrounded by barbed wire. One side facing the road is a huge single building with many cars parked in front of the door.
Chapter completed!