I agree that this is beyond a beginner topic, as it's beyond me. I'm gonna give back the incidence meter and pretend I never had it. Will work on CG, and maybe play with a washer under the engine mount as that's easy to do and easy to remove. Changing the shape of the plane to change the flight characteristics is definitely beyond someone flying toy airplanes for less than 3 months.

I'll check out that book over the winter, sounds interesting. I'll have taken Fluid Dynamics by then so maybe it would make more sense after that class (I can't WAIT for fluids!)