Sorry my tone was blunt. I see that after letting it sit a while. I got a little frustrated and should have just let it go.

To answer your question, what you need to research further is what it's like to fly an RC airplane, preferably both trike and taildragger. Your books won't help you with that. If there is an RC club nearby, it shouldn't be too hard to do that. Most aeromodelers own multiple aircraft, so asking someone to let you taxi a plane in both configurations won't be much trouble, While you're at it, maybe you and a couple of other guys on your team could get in some stick time on a well-designed and properly built model. There's nothing like having that reference point of knowing what something feels like that works right that you can then compare your designs to. But the main point here is that you should get some real world experience using these two kinds of landing gears to see what you're going to be dealing with. Ten minutes at the airfield will be worth more than 5 hours in the library for this particular part of your project.