UNI PROJECT PLEASE HELP

[sureth1ng]

HELLO,AND THANKS FOR TAKING A MOMENT TO READ MY MESSAGE. I AM CURRENTLY IN MY FIRST YEAR AT NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY STUDYING FASHION DESIGN. AT THIS POINT YOU MY THINK HOW IS FASHION DESIGN RELEVENT TO WORLD WAR TWO AIRCRAFT, AND WORLD WAR TWO AIRCRAFT RELEVENT TO FASHION DESIGN! WELL, I'M MIDWAY THROUGH A PROJECT WHICH ALOWS ME TO FOCUS ON ANY SOURCE OF INSPIRATION.........FOR A FASHION COLLECTION. I CHOOSE TO USE AIRCRAFT DESIGN AS MY STARTING POINT. MY CONCEPT HAS NOW PROGRESSED INTO 2ND WORLD WAR AIRCRAFT, IN PARTICULAR AIRCRAFT CRASHES. WHERE I NEED YOUR HELP IS IM STUGGELING TO FIND ANY IMAGARY FOR SUCH A AREA, I.E WEB PAGES.......ALSO........IM PARTICUALY INTERESTED IN THE INTERIOR OF THE AIRCRAFT, IN PARTICULAR..........IS IT TRUE THAT THE CREW OF THE AIRCRAFT WOULD WRITE MESSAGES ON THE INSIDE OF THE AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE? IF SO, WHAT DID THEY WRITE, AND WERE. IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GET SOME AUTHENTIC WRITTEN MESSAGES FROM THE SPOCKEN...EVEN ANY PICTURES OF THE MESSAGES. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. MANY THANKS, MATT.

[simon]

To be honest I'd not heard that aircrew did, since generally a crew flew a particular plane usually for the duration of their tour, so the only people who would be likely to read the messages would be themselves. Messages on bombs were a bit more common, and any book about bombing, the Falklands, The 1st Gulf war and almost any conflict post WWII will have photos of armours and crew painting or chalking messages like "Merry Xmas Galtieri", or "Happy Knew Year Adolf" on them.

WWW.Warbirdsresourcegroup.org has some good pictures under the Luftwaffe resource section and under "Defeathered Eagles" of crashed and abandoned wrecks if they're any use to you though.