goirish sorry to hear about your grandson's plane. I started with a 40 ultra stick with a saito 82 on it and it broke in the same spot, mid-flight. The hangar 9 sticks are really fun flying planes, but need to be reinforced in a few spots. The areas I had problems with was: rear of the fuse, right were your's broke, firewall, were the landing gear attachs to the fuse and the dowels that hold the wing on. Sounds like a lot, huh? Even with all that it was one of my favorite go-to planes ever. It does almost every aerobatic manuver, it's good in the wind and it taught and gave me confidence flying inverted. I ended up moving my elevator servo to the back of plane to balance out the 82 in the nose. When I did, I re-enforced the whole back end with some ply.<div></div><div>By the end, my plane had about an extra pound of epoxy, but it still flew great. I just wanted to use the 82 on a new project. If Hangar 9 does nothing, the fix is not hard and you will not notice any difference.</div>