The Boeing Co. obviously loves things that fly. Maybe that’s why the aerospace company volunteered to help out a wounded bald eagle, named Beauty.
Beauty looked a tad beastly after a poacher shot off her upper beak three years ago. She was spotted at a landfill in Alaska, reports the Associated Press.
The eagle was brought to the Birds of Prey Northwest ranch in Idaho where she was cared for Jane Fink Cantwell, who assembled a team to build a nylon-composite beak.
Nate Calvin, a Boise, Idaho-based mechanical engineer who works for Kinetic Engineering Group, spent about 200 hours designing the beak. Beauty was fitted with a temporary beak in May.
Boeing will help with Beauty’s permanent beak.
“Think of an aircraft,” Cantwell told Forbes. “It is strong and light. Boeing has the most logical expertise for Beauty because she needs a beak that is strong and light.”
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