Missing records can be as revealing as surviving primary sources

What advice would you give someone writing papers and making videos on Project Orion?

Compare primary sources and investigate expected information that is missing, because archival gaps can reveal as much as surviving content.

The advice is to compare primary sources rather than trust a single document. Researchers should identify routine or obvious records that ought to exist and then ask why they are absent. Gaps in the archival files for ships such as Furious and Ark Royal can point toward hidden decisions, lost material, or subjects that require a different evidentiary route. An absence is not proof of one preferred explanation, but it can direct the next stage of research. Missing paperwork becomes a question to test against other sources rather than a dead end.