Get the Standard Fora. for $225.00 I think it is. The Super Fora might be a bit faster, but not enough to effect the outcome of the match. I dont have any Super Fora's. I pitted several last weekend in Phoenix. Allen Deveuve's were the fastest planes in my opinion, and all had super Fora's. But combat isnt all about speed. I dont feel that I give up anything with the standard Fora, plus I can replace bearings instead of complete crankshafts. As far as foam planes go I've always been a foam guy. But in F2D so far I cant make them work as good as the metric planes. I have built some foams for fast and are satisfied with them. I buy Phil's F2D wings from corehouse. I took my foam wing cutting stuff down years ago, and Phil's wings are great, so its cheap and easy. Or just go with his F2D kit. It works well also. Foam still has the advantage of the foam wing kill over the metric stuff. I hope to have a few built by nats time myself.
As far as which F2D plane to buy, there's just not much diff in any of them. At your stage I would buy the cheapest one I could get. Get long motor mounts, pull the motor as far forward as possible, put the pushrod in the top hole and go for it. They're very controllable set up like that. Make sure you use a 4 to 5" spaced handle and you shouldnt have any problem. When you start feeling comfortable, start going down on the control horn. Then when your really ballsy, go back on the motor. Then you will have a nice twitchy airplane that you think is a bad ass and cant put it anywhere you want it. Then you think your ready for combat. After that doesnt work for a while you can go back out with the motor and start flying some really good, fun, combat, eyes off the plane, and put it where you aim it.