Always fasten safety belt
Aviation safety card: two hands pull a yellow strap together and close a metal buckle, with the instruction 'Always fasten safety belt' set diagonally across a blue and white ground. The technique is faint here: the sheet is a plain instruction and the danger it guards against is only implied, so fear-appeal is the closest honest label.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Directorate of Air Traffic and Safety and Directorate of Safety Education (U.S. Army Air Forces)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Directorate of Air Traffic and Safety and Directorate of Safety Education. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-338 (NAID 513785).
Text on the object
ALWAYS FASTEN SAFETY BELT DIRECTORATE OF AIR TRAFFIC AND SAFETY, AND DIRECTORATE OF SAFETY EDUCATION
