Northwest Aerospace News February | March 2018 Issue No. 1 | Page 18

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WATCH U.S. FLY Celebrating America’s Aerospace and Manufacturing Industries
By Steve Rice, Director of Political Mobilization at The Boeing Company
Steve Rice
Watch U.S. Fly
www.watchusfly.com
Director of Political Mobilization
at The Boeing Company
I
n 1915 William Boeing
and U.S. Navy Lieutenant G. Today—more than 100 years protect our men and women in
Conrad Westervelt took turns later—Boeing is the largest uniform, and even support mis-
riding above Lake Washington aerospace company in the sions to space. Boeing’s products
on a Curtiss-type hydroplane. world employing more than have helped shape the course of
Boeing’s critique of the simple 137,000 direct employees and history and play an increasingly
biplane and infatuation with supporting another 1.3 million important role in each of our
aviation led him to believe supplier-related jobs in the U.S. everyday lives. Its mission to
he could build something alone. In Washington State, connect, protect, explore and
better. The following year, The tens of thousands of employees inspire the world can be seen in
Boeing Company was open for continue to create products that all of its products and felt in all
business in Seattle. carry people across the globe, 50 states from Maine to Hawaii.
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“But can America’s
growth
and
leadership in the
aerospace sector be
sustained for
another 100 years?”