AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT:                                                                                        Sept. 11 - Aug. 7

 ...Arcata firm assumes an unlikely, though pivotal, role for military...Improbable as it may sound, Wing Inflatables, a small firm shoehorned into  a couple of gritty warehouses in this little town on the margins of Humboldt  Bay, has become a major defense contractor...

Read full story from the San Fransisco Chronicle August 7, 2002