I'd either go with a boomerang (Intro or Elan) which you can get from Altecare in Toronto, or a Reaction 54 kit from BTE engineering. Neither fits in the "good looking" category, however they fly well, and improtantly will give you the chance to be successful early on..
If you want scale, the PST Panther is a really really nice flying plane - a little more complex, but well worth the work to get it in the air. F-15's are supposed to be nice flyers, but I have seen three of them that were handfuls to land.