Chapter 321: 321 Records Are For Breaking

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

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

A fool would not do it.

As far as Li Changheng is concerned, normally hiring a private pilot is usually someone who has been in the industry for many years, has enough experience, and has not made any mistakes.

But this kind of person also has to pay double salary.

It's not even necessarily enough.

After all, he has worked in the aviation field for many years, so he might be able to enter the management team.

And they also have pensions in airlines.

Or take it, that is, to get the moment of their death.

It means that Li Changheng paid off their future pension in one lump sum when Jim and the others retired.

Whoever lived the fewest years earned it.

If anyone can live another thirty years and die at 90, he must be at a disadvantage.

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

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

But if you bought stock in a company like Netscape, you might just have a heart attack.

Back at the wooden villa on the farm outside Richmond, when Li Changheng went to wash up, Jim looked at Blade and Star Banks and said, "Can I make a phone call?"

Banks was taken aback for a moment, and soon realized that the middle-aged man in front of him, apart from being an astronaut, was indeed just an ordinary person.

After getting the consent, Jim called his two companions.

A monthly salary of 3,000 is equal to 5 months of New York's middle-income earners in this era.

Coupled with the retirement rewards, Jack and Fred, who hadn't planned to retire so soon, had to seriously consider this matter.

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

Jim frowned and thought for a while, "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 other things, the consultant's remuneration for 5 months alone is 25,000, plus a 50,000 bonus once the boss successfully lands on the moon.

Such a generous and powerful boss, isn't it worth fighting for? "

"this,,."

The result of the matter is that Fred, who is not very ambitious, that is, the pilot of the lunar module, agreed without much consideration.

Only Jack, who was in charge of piloting the spaceship, said that he would wait until January next year before thinking about it.

This is basically tantamount to rejection.

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

Jack was hired only to form a three-person advisory group.

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

Li Changheng, who was wearing a T-shirt and trousers after taking a shower, smiled and waved his hands after hearing Jim's reply.

He deliberately eased the atmosphere and said, "It's okay, buddy, it's normal for someone to be inseparable from flying."

After hearing this, Jim was relieved.

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

"Boss, should we start now, or start training on theoretical knowledge after the overload test tomorrow?"

"Tell me about how you became a pilot, how you were selected by NASA, and the interesting stories and experiences of going into space four times."

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

Then, under the watchful eyes of Li Changheng, Blade and Banks, he began to talk about his 18-year pilot career.

He graduated from the Naval Academy 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 do test pilot training, and graduated with the first grade after half a year.

Then he spent 4 years as a test pilot, and then participated in the astronaut selection for Project Mercury.

This stay is more than 8 years.

In other words, this guy has been dealing with airplanes for the first half of his life, and he is simply a super experience pack in flying.

At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, Li Changheng drove to the overload test field of the base.

See that astronaut supervisor named Dick Reston again.

The two only made some eye contact, and Li Changheng was taken to do heart and lung examinations first.

At 10:30 in the morning, wearing a pilot's special suit, he got on the overload instrument that he had already sat on once.

That is, a spherical simulated cab connected by long metal rods.

Buckle up and give the console a thumbs up.

There was a countdown sound on the radio.

The overload test is actually a simulated fighter jet, performing high-speed flight tests such as sharp turns and dives.

And the time is not as long as expected, it is usually counted 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 starts suddenly, the human body will automatically lean back, and then the speed is multiplied by 5 times or 6 times, and the skin will start to deform as if being stretched by someone.

At 8 or 9G, the eyeballs will still bulge obviously.

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

Then as soon as you slow down, you can wake up in a few seconds.

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

Of course, this is the case for pilots with excellent physical fitness.

At 6G with poor talent, there will be signs of coma, and once the deceleration slows down for a few seconds, life will be in danger.

However, people who do this kind of test must start to rise a little bit.

Once there are signs of coma, there is absolutely no chance to test higher speeds.

Li Changheng's test results were no surprises. When 10 seconds reached 9G, it was a speed stabilizer for 10 seconds.

Test whether he will be unable to support under this overload.

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

Many times it is around ten seconds.

When entering the ten-second steady speed period, the people in the control room were all staring at the monitoring screen.

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

That is, the mustache that Li Changheng scolded, pressed the deceleration button in 10 seconds.

I also ignored the dissatisfaction or regretful eyes of the people present.

The test director said into the headset, "Captain Henry Lee, is there any discomfort or anything special?"

Li Changheng frowned and thought about it, then shook his head and said, "How many seconds does it take to accelerate to 10G?"

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

The people in the control room waited nervously and expectantly for the voice in the earphones.

"Jim, have any astronauts you know ever lasted 22 seconds in a test?"

Jim looked up at Dick Reston for a moment.

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

"OK", Li Changheng thought silently for a few seconds, "15 seconds to accelerate and 10 seconds to stabilize the speed."

"you sure?"

The officer in charge of the test immediately looked at the metal ball in the test field through the glass with his eyes shining.

It takes 15 seconds to accelerate to about 11.5G. If the machine has a centrifugal force, it can easily reach 12G.

Moreover, whether it was him, or Jim, and Dick Reston, they were all thinking about a problem that Li Changheng himself didn't care about at all.