RE: Best plane for me, a newbie.
For electric parkflyers look at GWS (Distributed by Horizon Hobbies) They make several park/slow flyers that you can learn on. I would also recommend getting an instructor but if you go it alone two nice planes are the slow stick and tigermoth. If you go electric get a couple of spare battery packs and a good charger capable of charging NiCad, NimMh, Lion batteries