the box will collide with the craft, thats correct, the craft is "embedded" in the box, you could check for collision with specific objects to fix that, for the other problem...turn the object around 180 degrees and then use fix object pivot to lock it in that position, you should then find that the object goes forwards as expected, cheers.
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