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A Vintage Plane Saved from Scrap | Cork News
When Eddie O’Sullivan, owner of Cork Metal Company, usually sees scrap metal, he’s all business—until a vintage Percival Pembroke plane rolled into his yard. Built in the 1950s for reconnaissance and later modified for the WWII biopic “Jimmy,” this rare aircraft was nearly destined for the junkyard… until Eddie, inspired by its history, outbid a UK buyer to save it. With three trucks and a 14-day marathon effort, restoration experts James Radford and Tim Crowley—pharma pros by day—reconstructed the plane using a 1957 photo as their blueprint. Only two of these planes exist in the world, the…
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