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title: Keep Them Both Flying! Speed Is Vital!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-keep-them-both-flying-speed-is-vital-1939/
description: A Union Jack on a flagpole and an aircraft with RAF-style roundels share a blue sky, under 'Keep them both flying!' and 'Speed is vital!'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Keep Them Both Flying! Speed Is Vital!, 1939 Canada poster: A Union Jack on a flagpole and an aircraft with RAF-style](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-keep-them-both-flying-speed-is-vital-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-keep-them-both-flying-speed-is-vital-1939.jpg)

# Keep Them Both Flying! Speed Is Vital!

A Union Jack on a flagpole and an aircraft with RAF-style roundels share a blue sky, under 'Keep them both flying!' and 'Speed is vital!'. The tell is the flag standing for the cause and attached to aircraft output (transfer); the poster does not say what workers should do.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
KEEP THEM BOTH FLYING!

SPEED IS Vital!

Published and distributed under the authority and direction of the Director-General of Aircraft Production

Donated to Canada's War Effort by Northern Electric Company Limited
MONTREAL
```

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