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title: Remember Your Undercarriage
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-remember-your-undercarriage-air-diagram-1300-1941/
description: A two-panel grey drawing shows a cockpit with a 'DOWN' indicator above a band of text, and below it an aircraft sliding on its belly on an airfield
section: Collection
---

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[![Remember Your Undercarriage, 1941 UK poster: A two-panel grey drawing shows a cockpit with a 'DOWN' indicator above a band](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-remember-your-undercarriage-air-diagram-1300-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-remember-your-undercarriage-air-diagram-1300-1941.jpg)

# Remember Your Undercarriage

A two-panel grey drawing shows a cockpit with a 'DOWN' indicator above a band of text, and below it an aircraft sliding on its belly on an airfield as ground crew run. The text says to check undercarriage operation before landing, closing with 'This pilot didn't!'. The tell is the staged crash set against a single prescribed check (fear appeal); the sheet is chiefly a training reminder.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[drawing signed:] LESLIE CARR

REMEMBER YOUR UNDERCARRIAGE

CHECK YOUR UNDERCARRIAGE OPERATION BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO LAND, ESPECIALLY
(i) AFTER AN ENGAGEMENT
(ii) WHEN YOUR APPROACH HAS BEEN BAULKED.

THIS PILOT DIDN'T!

Drawing by THE AEROPLANE
MAY, 1941  AIR DIAGRAM 1300
ISSUE NO. 1
DATE MAY, 1941
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

[in the cockpit:] DOWN
```

[← Pause when you go out into the dark to let your eyes get used to the Black-out](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-pause-when-you-go-out-into-the-dark-1941/) [Retailers' Pooled Delivery Service →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-retailers-pooled-delivery-service-1941/)

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