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If ya gotta, just gotta improvise on the glue you might try xylene. I think it is the main ingredient in actual, for real, plastic model cement. I'd sure test it on some scraps first.

I made a few pilots a few years back. I thought I would screw at least the first one up because I'm not really a plastics kind of guy. They turned out fine, and I had fun making them.

I drilled a pair of holes in the base, and glued and pinned the bust to the balsa "floor." I'd try a flexible glue myself. Canopy glue might be the ticket.

Good luck with yours,

Dave

Once the pilot is glued in, under a plastic canopy, it is then captured forever!  To prevent the plastic pilot from rattling around after it has broken loose, I usually drill a hole in the bottom of the pilot figure, and in the cockpit floor.  I pin them together using a balsa "dowel" made from a piece of hard 1/4" square balsa.  Don't depend on just glue.  Use a dowel, plus glue (epoxy for the doubters).