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While searching for information on the P40M for my current project I came across several websites that I had forgotten, or simply had forgot to book mark. So it seems prudent to write a timely reminder on researching your subject and the importance of bookmarking your Internet references.
While caught up in the research for your current project it is easy to forget to look at what you have found, to discard a web page because it’s content is off subject or simply not relevant to your subject. While it’s easy to just click the back button on your browser just take a moment to look at where you are and ask your self a few questions. Is this in my general area of modeling, do I have other projects that may need this information, am I on the home page and lastly does it provide a wealth of knowledge I can use in my hobby?
The reason to ask yourself if your on the homepage is so you can look at all of the websites content it may have what your looking for just worded differently to what you asked the search engine to look for. Also search engines are wonderful things how ever if you are asking for the information in a different way than it’s provided on the web no amount of searching will find it! Sometimes it pays to think of different ways to ask for the information you need.
Now I’m not advocating going through every page you find, just not to be in a hurry to discard a page you’ve found. I’ll be the first to admit that I find more pages that don’t relate to my search or provide none of the information I need than I do find that are exactly what I need. More likely it will be in the middle ground where it’ll provide some tantalizing pieces of information but not the whole picture your looking for.
Even web pages devoted to the subject may lack what you are looking for, also you may find that there is no free source of information to hand. Specifically if your looking for plans or line drawings of your subject. In my case I need to find line drawings so I can define where my panel lines need to go as the casting of my fuselage is on the poor side and need to be redefined. Which can be a mite hard if you’ve no idea where the panel lines are supposed to go. With that in mind here is a site dedicated to line drawings and airplane information in general, now the website is French but has an English menu! I recommend this site it’s full of useful information for both us propeller heads and jet jockeys! And the name of it is Wings 2.12 go check it out!
So I recommend you book mark for exploration later, you can then decide what to keep and what to discard. Also I recommend you use a book marking website like Delicious to keep your bookmarks in a safe place, computer crashes are horrendous not only in terms of data lost but also the bookmarks for hard to locate sites!The web is an excellent resource and it takes some thought to get the best out of it. Happy hunting!
NzFlyBoy
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