KUKUŁKA - A HIGHLIGHT OF THE LIGHT AVIATION EXPO - A FILM-LIKE STORY!

The famous Kukułka [Cuckoo] is on the display at the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow. On
7-8 October, the Targi Kielce Light Aviation Expo guests will have the chance to see it
in the flesh

The machine was built by Eugeniusz Pieniążek, an amateur constructor who used his own apartment a Leszno's block of flats. A 8 square meters room was the workshop. The history that would make a movie on great escapes. Kukułka's idea was born out of the hope of freedom.   The builder used the wings and the cockpit cover of the glider-wreck Jaskółka [the Swallow]. Then he utilised the tail of the Foka [Seal] glider and the chassis of the Piper Cub.  This genuine plane assembly was put into one piece at the Leszno airport.  The Kukułka name is owed to the constructor's daughter.  In 1971  Eugeniusz Pieniążek would fly all over Poland, he taught 44pilots.  Finally he managed to get to the former Yugoslavia with the use of this plane.  This is only the beginning of the Cuckoo's story and the constructor's ups and downs.  The plane is one of the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow exhibits.  However, the next weekend, i.e. 7-8 October you will see it at the Light Aviation Expo  in Targi Kielce.

(KK)

See the Cuckoo photo gallery from the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow.