In the mean time between tweaking my nutball and running out of/ordering props, I'm going to start serious work on this design. I have decided to scale around a 50mm EDF, though not sure on the exact one I want. There are two main variables that I need help deciding on. One is that this will be a three channel plane, using my crappy hobby king transmitter with no servo mixing and sensitivity adjusting. I'm wondering if I will be better able to fly this plane better using two elevons(yank and bank), or if I should configure it like the nutball, with a single elevator and a rudder.
The second concern is, and I can post rough sketches if it will help, I am deciding wether to terminate my fuselage before the vertical stabilizer and place the back end with the EDF in front of my stabilizer and elevons, so it blows back over my control surfaces(will this give me better control through partial thrust vectoring?), or to make the fuselage full length and have the edf thrusting at the very back, not over the control surfaces?(I know this way works it is how the real jets do it, but reaction driven aircraft probably have concerns about the exhaust going directly over the control surfaces that I don't have to worry about with a simple EDF).
Thanks in advance, to anyone who helps. Once I answer these two questions and choose a motor/EDF the rest of design will fall together, because I've got it all pretty much laid out aside from those variables. If I build this and get it to fly successfully, I'll do my best to develop it into and exact plan with all the specs laid out, so others can mess around with it too!