I've torn apart the Kopter and salvaged what I could. The fuse is unsalvagable. I've had a couple of thoughts for the rebuild. 1) I could buy some square aluminium and rivet a new fuse together to replicate the original design. 2) I could use a 1X2 piece of pine for a fuse and attach the rotor and mast to that along with the engine tail feathers etc.. 3) I have a Super Sports 40S fuse and tail feathers that is wingless. I could attach the rotor and mast to that and get a frankenstienish creation. 4) I could ask for advice on RCU and go with someone else's suggestion. What is my best bet? The first would be good because I'd end up with the same thing as the origional which I know will fly, but bad because I don't know where I can get square aluminium in sections longer than three feet. The second would probably work and would be the easiest to do, but it would be even uglier that it was before. I don't really care what it looks like as long as it flys though. The third option would probably look the best, but there's alot of hurdles to cross on that: I don't know how/where I'd attach the square aluminum to the flimsy balsa, the fuse is shorter than the original, the tail feathers are smaller with less control surface...and alot that I haven't run into. Hopefully I can go with the fourth option where somone with more than a minute of gyro experience like me can tell me what to do that's cheap, easy, and flys well. So I leave it to the gyro masters. What should I do?



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I was also thinking of adding a stubby wing to it. Would this add to the stability on the roll axis or would it just add lift? On my one short flight, it seemed like I was constantly fighting to keep the rotor level side to side.