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Boeing drone maker creates technology jobs near Gorge

BINGEN, Klickitat County — Insitu has more than 15 offices strung along the extravagant-sloped confines of the Columbia River Gorge, but none of them big enough to adjust a gathering of all the employees.

So when the time came to celebrate a milestone — the setting of the 1,000th aerial drone built by the company — everyone headed for a excited-school football field. There, they piled into bleachers for a circuitous route of speeches from company officials who had laid out a squadron of drones at the 20-yard crinkle.

These drones, which resemble oversized model aircraft, have propelled Insitu from a miniature experimental startup that in 2002 had fewer than a dozen employees to a performers with more than 630 workers and expected 2009 revenues topping $200 million.

The train — purchased by Boeing last year — has helped reshape the Ravine economy once dominated by aluminum smelters, timber mills and agriculture to a favourable-tech incubator that could spin out jobs to other parts of the Northwest.

Source: Seattle Times

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