Oh well, our planes were a little too big for this challenge anyways. I'm probably going to submit a revised version of my plane for the next plane challenge.
I went through several revisions and the one with the control surfaces worked the best. I can post the old version if you want it. Edit: On second thought, I'll post a different version for the Ravenspear mk4 challenge.
I was wondering, how responsive should a beginner plane be? If pressing S makes it jerk up really fast and pressing Q makes it roll too fast, does that make it easy to fly?