Dan K wrote:
Please don't take the following comments in the wrong way, but throughout my life I've spent many, many personal hours scrounging info and/or parts for restorers and enthusiasts who are requesting "anything you've got" on a particular aircraft,(squadron, aviator, etc)...only to be told at the end of the search, "Oh, I've got that already".
So, please, anyone who is looking for assistance in these areas, kindly provide some kind of listing of what you have already acquired or discovered. I really do enjoy scrounging and assisting others; wasting time searching for what was never needed dampens the enthusiasm considerably.
Very well said. I know people who do research for a living, and some get paid
really well for it, going through archives.
One said he was recently looking through a forum and was 'mortified' (his word) at the people who'd just ask for people to do work for them for free. It just blew his mind when he found his common it really was, especially when some hadn't apparently even done a simple Google search.