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Australian Drone Engine Maker To Open Factory In Hood River

Tom Banse

The unmanned aircraft industry cluster in the Columbia River Gorge is growing yet again. An Australian company that specializes in drone engines plans to…

Disasters and Accidents

Boeing's Drone Subsidiary Flies Missions Over Wildfire Bearing Down On Its Home

Tom Banse

One of Boeing Defense subsidiary Insitu's 45-pound high-tech unmanned aircraft joined the fight against the Eagle Creek fire this weekend.Earlier last…

Science and Technology

Eye In Sky To Spy On Wildfires Awaits Green Light From Feds

Tom Banse

Two Air National Guard reconnaissance planes were called in Wednesday by the National Interagency Fire Center to help detect and map wildfires in the…

Science and Technology

Drone Maker Outgrowing Columbia Gorge, But HQ And Production Will Stay Put

Tom Banse

The cluster of unmanned aircraft systems companies in the Columbia River Gorge led one online journal to dub the rural region east of Portland,…

Science and Technology

Boeing Subsidiary Makes Drone Test Flights To Monitor Railway

Tom Banse

The Boeing Company's unmanned aircraft subsidiary based in the Columbia River Gorge passed a milestone this week in commercializing drone…