Gary,
The nose wheel and doors set up is very easy.
Bellow is a diagram I made when building mine.
I went with Spring air 402, 85 degrees on mains and 90 degrees on nose.
I'm using that same radio, is excellent and cheap.
For my new Viper I'll use the Futaba's servos syncronizers, instead of Y harness at the elevators and flaps servos. Programing the radio is very easy....
For all the questions related to the turbine, lest way until you are closer to jump into those details....there is nothing to worried about.
P-160 for the F-18.
Regards,
Miguel