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Lockheed-California Company, Published [No date: circa 1983]. Wraps, 12 pp.; 22 cm; staple bound; "typeset and printed by Lockheed-California Company" on rear wrap; foreword by Tony LeVier printed on inside front wrap, "The Desiderata" on inside rear wrap; one cartoon; references. Ink address stamp of Safe Action in Flight Emergencies, Inc., La Canada, California, at foot of the foreword.
In Very Good condition. Pale blue printed wraps with mild shelf wear and light fading at edges. Staples tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Twelve-page paper on memory and pilot error by a Stamford, Connecticut physician, issued through Tony LeVier's Safe Action in Flight Emergencies, the non-profit the former Lockheed chief test pilot (first flights of the P-80, F-104, and U-2) founded after his 1974 retirement to train civilian pilots in emergency handling; LeVier's foreword says Crane presented him the paper in October 1982. Crane separates brain, mind, and memory, walks through sensory, short-term, and long-term memory with a 707 crew's forgotten flap setting as the case study, gives Jerome Berlin's five hazardous thought patterns from Embry-Riddle (anti-authority, invulnerability, impulsivity, macho, out-control) with a family-fatal Thanksgiving flight as the example, types jet-lag flights into four classes, and covers the GGTP blood test for hidden alcoholism, the age-60 rule, and early dementia. Crane expanded the paper into The Pilot's Brain, Mind and Memory (Bach Productions, 1986). WorldCat locates one copy, at the Museum of Flight library.