RE: Getting the Reciever and Plane in tact.
Many ARFs have an internal antenna tube that runs the length of the fuselage, and exits out the bottom at the back, near the rudder. I've done the same thing with SPADs... just glued a long piece of push rod tubing insid the fuse and ran the antenna through it and out the back of the plane. I put a servo arm "strain-relief" on either end of the tube, so the wire doesn't move around.