Reminds me of the Pieniążek "Kukułka" - a homebuilt made using parts from a number of crashed gliders and the engine from a dead piper cub:
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It was built to escape from Poland. It's quite a story (see
The Story). I stumbled across it in the Kracow aviation museum.
PDR