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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Air Ministry (Air Diagram 1300, 'For official use only'); drawing by Leslie Carr, credited to the magazine The Aeroplane
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; no URAA restoration); hosted by owner decision
Air Ministry; drawing by Leslie Carr for The Aeroplane. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-65h.
Text on the object
[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
