And that hardly feels like "doing research"! If you're really interested in the hobby then you're really interested in reading about it, watching videos about it, collecting photos of plane designs, reading the forum...
Instead of being smarter than everybody else you should be interested in reviewing how others are doing it successfully. Then you learned a technique, now you own it. Instead of experiencing failure after failure because you're doing it wrong.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
And if I might add: Dumb poets try to reinvent it all themselves without any idea idea what's been done before them.