Aviation Safety and Security Archives

The Lederer Papers contain correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, photographs, news clippings, publications, an oral history interview and memorabilia spanning Lederer's entire career.

Included are records relating to a number of aviation insurance companies, including Barber and Baldwin, Aero Insurance Underwriters, Aerotech Insurance Underwriters, Aero Engineering and Advisory Service, and Charles A. Rheinstrom, Inc. The collections also contain documents relating to Lederer's time as director of the Civil Aeronautics Board Safety Bureau (1940-1942), as well as his work for the Airlines War Training Institute (1942-1943).

Lederer's work as technical director of the Flight Safety Foundation (1948-1967) and its predecessor organization Aviation Engineering for Safety (1947-1948), as well as his concurrent position as director of the Cornell-Guggenheim Aviation Safety Center (1950-1967), is well represented. Records related to Aviation Crash Injury Research/Aviation Safety and Engineering Research (AvCIR/AvSER) are included in the Flight Safety Foundation and Cornell-Guggenheim Aviation Safety Center records. Lederer's continuing association with Flight Safety Foundation after his 1967 retirement from the Foundation is also documented in the collection.

The Lederer Papers also include documents relating to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the space program, notably Lederer's work as director of the Office of Manned Space Flight Safety for the Apollo program as well as his subsequent position as director of safety for NASA.

In addition, the Lederer Papers contain writings, speeches and other presentations by Lederer spanning his career. Additional writings by Lederer can be found in the publications of Aero Insurance Underwriters and the Flight Safety Foundation. Also documented is Lederer's involvement with the aviation safety work of government agencies, associations and organizations, and various committees. The collection also includes correspondence and biographical materials, as well as documents relating to the numerous awards and honors that he received.

Information on other individuals, writings by these individuals and correspondence between other individuals and Lederer may be found in the "Other Individuals" series. However, the bulk of Lederer's correspondence (including correspondence with individuals listed in the "Other Individuals" series) is filed in the "Correspondence Series." The collection also documents Lederer's involvement in the Air Mail Pioneers and also includes files on other aviation history topics.

The Flight Safety Foundation Jerry Lederer Aviation Safety Library is available to FSF members as well as members of the Embry‑Riddle community, safety scientists and investigators, aviation safety personnel, academic researchers and others interested in aviation safety and the history of aviation.

Resources may be used on-site in the Aviation Safety and Security Archives on Embry‑Riddle's Prescott, Arizona, campus. Remote reference services are also available. Contact the Archives for more information.

For more information about the Flight Safety Foundation, visit the Foundation's website.

Jerome Fox "Jerry" Lederer is often called the "father of aviation safety." He began his career as an aeronautical engineer for the U.S. Air Mail Service in the 1920s, prior to becoming chief engineer for Aero Insurance Underwriters, one of the world's largest aviation insurance companies at that time. In addition to assessing aviation risks for the company, Lederer carried out safety audits and educational programs, and produced a widely acclaimed safety newsletter. In 1940, Lederer was named director of the newly created Civil Aeronautics Board Safety Bureau, a forerunner to the National Transportation Safety Board. He left the Safety Bureau in 1942 for a position with the Airlines War Training Institute.

In the aftermath of a Lockheed Constellation accident in 1946, Lederer organized a meeting to discuss ways to disseminate safety information. The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) was formed in 1947 as a result of this meeting, and Lederer served as its director until 1967. Lederer also was director of the Cornell-Guggenheim Aviation Safety Center from 1950 to 1967. Upon his retirement from FSF, Lederer was asked to establish an Office of Manned Space Flight Safety for NASA to address safety issues in the Apollo Program following the January 1967 launch-pad fire that killed three astronauts. Lederer retired from NASA in 1972 but continued to be an advocate for aviation safety until his death in 2004 at age 101.

For additional information about the life and career of Jerry Lederer, see the special issue of "Flight Safety Digest" published by the Flight Safety Foundation in honor of Lederer's 100th birthday in 2002.

Series: Airlines War Training Institute, 1942-1943
Extent: 2 boxes and 8 folders

The Airlines War Training Institute (AWTI) was an unincorporated association of 19 American airlines that was formed in August 1942 to meet the need for air transport personnel to support the war effort. Lederer served as vice president and head of AWTI's administrative section. In October 1943, AWTI was formally disbanded, having met the needs of Air Transport Command through the training of approximately 12,000 flight crew and 35,000 ground personnel. This series contains materials related to the organization, primarily AWTI publications.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General: Boxes 50A, 53A, 54B, 67A, 71A, 87A, 91A, 92A
• Publications: Boxes 49 (entire box) and 58 (entire box)

Series: Aviation History, 1910-2002
Extent: 34 folders

This series contains items collected by Lederer related to the history of aviation. Of particular note is material on the history of air mail in the United States and records of the Air Mail Pioneers. Lederer served as president of the Air Mail Pioneers from 1976 to 1999. In addition to the information filed here, additional materials may be found in the "Topical Files" series and the "Other Individuals" series.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General: Boxes 50A, 51A, 53A, 54A, 56B, 59A, 60A, 66A-B (2f), 68A, 69B, 70B, 86B, 87A, 88A, 89B, 92B
• Air mail: Boxes 59A, 68A (2f), 88B
• Air Mail Pioneers, 1927-2001: Boxes 50A, 51A, 53B, 54A, 67A, 68B, 71A, 86B, 87A, 59A, 66B, 68A (2f), 92B
• Army Air Forces (World War I), 1944-1945: Box 66B
• Doolittle Library, University of Texas at Dallas: Box 87A
• Luscombe history (includes Monocoupe): Box 88A
• Selfridge accident: Box 51A
• Wings Club: Box 66A
• Women in aviation: Boxes 68A, 89B

Series: Aviation Insurance
Extent: 29 folders

Lederer worked in the aviation insurance business from 1927 to 1940 and again in the mid-1940s. This series contains materials related to aviation insurance companies for which Lederer worked, as well as later information on aviation insurance collected by Lederer. Of note are the safety bulletins distributed by Aero Insurance Underwriters. Lederer's experience and focus on the dissemination of safety information, as illustrated by these bulletins, was one of the factors that led to the formation of the Flight Safety Foundation in 1947.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General: Boxes 53A, 54B, 56A,  67A, 70B
• Aero Engineering and Advisory Service: Box 55
• Aero Insurance Underwriters, 1937-1948: Boxes 50A, 51A, 54A, 59A, 62B, 67A, 70B (2f), 71A-B (5f), 87A, 89B, 91A, 92A
• Aerotech Insurance Underwriters: Box 55
• Barber and Baldwin, 1928: Boxes 51A, 60A, 87A, 88B
• Charles A. Rheinstrom, Inc., 1947-1948: Boxes 51A, 70B
• Statistics and aviation underwriting, 1953-1967: Boxes 71A, 86B

Series: Biographical and Personal, 1917-2005
Extent: 79 folders

This series contains biographical material about Lederer; correspondence, clippings, programs and other items related to awards and honors received by Lederer; materials related to Lederer's education and early career; photographs; and other memorabilia. The series also contains material about Lederer's wife, Sarah, and his family. Although not listed in this inventory of textual records, the collection also includes many of the numerous awards that Lederer received in his lifetime. Contact the archives for additional information on these items, which include plaques, medals, statues and similar items.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General biographical: Boxes 50A (2f), 51A, 53A, 54A, 55 (4f), 56A-B (4f), 59A, 60A (2f), 60A, 62A-B (2f), 66A-B, 67A (2f), 68A, 69A, 71A, 86B (2f), 87A, 88A-B (3f), 89B, 91A, 92A-B (3f)
• Air Reserve Corps, 1925-1931: Box 68A
• Awards and honors: Boxes 50A (2f), 51A, 53A, 54A (2f), 55 (4f), 56B, 56, 59A, 62A-B (5f), 66A, 67A (2f), 69A, 70A-B (2f), 71A, 86B (2f), 87A, 88A-B (3f), 89B, 92A-B (3f)
• Certificates, 1943-2002: Box 62A (3f)
• Daedalian honorary membership, 1985: Box 62B
• Early career: Box 55
• High school, 1917: Box 56A
• Jerome Lederer Colloquium, College of Aeronautics, LaGuardia Airport: Box 56A, 66B (2f)
• Jerry Lederer System Safety Implementation Award, 1970: Box 91A
• King, Stephen, 1971: Box 55
• Lederer family (see also Sarah Lederer): Boxes 53B, 68A, 69B, 88A
• Lederer Library: Boxes 50A
• Lederer Library dedication photographs, 1989: Box 62A (3f)
• Letterhead: Box 55
• Memorabilia: Box 70B
• New York State Professional Engineer Registration: Box 62A
• Notes: Box 68A
• Personal, miscellaneous: Box 55, 67A, 68A
• Photographs: Box 67A, 70B
• Retirement from NASA, 1972: Boxes 67A, 71A
• Sarah Lederer, 1945-1998: Box 51B, 54A, 56A, 62B, 69B, 86B, 87A, 89B
• Special Books - Inscriptions, 1968: Box 50A
• Stall warning indicator: Box 68B
• Tsiolkovsky Medal: Box 50A
• University, 1920s: Box 67A
• USSR trip (People to People and ICAO Human Factors Seminar): Boxes 51B, 60A, 68A, 69B
• World War II: Box 86B
• Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy: Box 70B

Extent: 21 folders

When the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was established in 1940, Lederer was asked to serve as the first director of the new agency's Safety Bureau. The CAB Safety Bureau was responsible for safety rulemaking as well as for accident investigation. This series contains documents from Lederer's time in the Safety Bureau (1940-1942). Later materials related to CAB and to its successor agencies may be found in the "Organizations and "Committees" series.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General: Boxes 50A, 51A, 53B, 54B (2f), 55, 59A (2f), 60A, 66A, 67A (2f), 68B, 70A, 86B, 87A, 88B, 91A (2f), 92A
• Accident Investigation: Air Safety Bureau (and notes, probably unrelated), 1941: Box 67A
• TWA Flight 6, DC-3, NC17315, Robertson, Missouri, Civil Aeronautics Board, 1941: Box 67A

Extent: 18 folders

This series contains records and documents related to Lederer's service as a member of the Board of Trustees for the College of Aeronautics (now Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology). Also included are documents related to a 1997 colloquium named in honor of Lederer.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General: Boxes 51A, 53B, 54A, 55, 56A, 60A, 66A-B (2f), 67A, 68B, 71A, 86B, 87A, 88B, 89B
• Jerry Lederer Colloquium: Boxes 56A, 66B (2f)

Extent: 21 folders

This series contains documentation on conferences, seminars and symposia, including events that Lederer attended as well as a few events that he did not attend but about which he received information. Information related to other conferences, seminars and symposia may be found in the "Flight Safety Foundation" series, the "Organizations and Committees" series, and in Lederer's correspondence. Papers and addresses that Lederer gave at these and other events may be found in the "Writings, Speeches and Addresses" series.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General: Boxes 60A, 90B
• Airport and Fixed Base Conference (Purdue), 1947: Box 50A
• BAMA Symposium: The Contribution of Civil Aviation to the Development of the National Economy, 1974: Box 69B
• Cabin Crew Safety Seminar. Report for the Airline Stewards and Stewardesses Association, 1966: Box 90A
• Committee on Selection and Training of Aircraft Pilots, 1947: Box 87A
• First International Aerial Safety Congress, Paris, 1930: Box 92A
• ICAO Human Factors Seminar, USSR (1990), 1981-1990: Boxes 51B, 60A, 68A (4f), 69B
• ICAO Accident Investigation and Prevention (AIG) Divisional Meeting, 1997-1999: Box 55
• International Cabin Safety Symposium, 1987, 1997-1998, 2001: Boxes 68A, 88A, 90A
• MATS Safety Seminar (1962), 1962, 1967: Boxes 60A, 70B, 90A

Extent: 14 folders

Lederer served as director of the Cornell-Guggenheim Aviation Safety Center from 1950 until 1967. He held this position concurrently while serving as managing director of the Flight Safety Foundation. The Safety Center, which had accomplished its mandate to make aviation as safe as transportation by train, was closed soon after Lederer's retirement from the directorship. This series contains records related to the Safety Center and its work. Also included is information on the Crash Injury Research program originally established by Hugh deHaven at Cornell University Medical School. The aviation side of the program (which also included automotive safety) was transferred to the Cornell-Guggenheim Center following the center's establishment in 1950. It was renamed Aviation Crash Injury Research (AvCIR) and was later known as Aviation Safety and Engineering Research (AvSER). Additional materials related to AvCIR/AvSER, which became a subsidiary of the Flight Safety Foundation in 1959, can be found in the "Flight Safety Foundation" series.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General: Boxes 51A, 53B, 54A, 55, 59A, 66B, 68A, 69A, 86B, 88B, 91A
• Crash Injury Research (Hugh deHaven, Cornell): Boxes 50A, 87A, 92A
• Harry F. Guggenheim: Box 66B

Extent: 51 folders

This series contains correspondence written and received by Jerome Lederer. Additional correspondence may be found in other series, especially in the "Flight Safety Foundation" series and the "Other Individuals" series.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• Unsorted (1920s-2000s): Boxes 50A, 51A (2f), 52B, 53A, 54A-B (3f), 55 (3f), 56A, 59A, 60A, 62B, 66B, 67A (2f), 68A, 70A, 71A, 86B (2f), 87A (2f), 88A, 89A-B (2f), 92A
• 1920s: Boxes 54B, 55, 56A, 67A, 70B
• 1930s: Boxes 50A, 54B, 56A, 59A, 67A, 68A
• 1940s: Boxes 54B (2f), 62B, 66A-B (2f), 67A (2f), 70B, 71A, 86B (2f), 91A, 92A
• 1950s: Boxes 51A, 60A, 70B, 87A (2f), 91A
• 1960s: Boxes 52B, 53A, 54A, 55, 67A, 88A, 89A
• 1970s: Boxes 52B, 54A, 87A, 89B
• 1980s: Boxes 51A, 67A (2f), 69B (2f), 86B
• 1990s: Boxes 50A, 51A, 53B, 54A-B (4f), 55 (2f), 59A, 60A, 66A, 67A, 69B, 70B, 71A, 86B (2f), 87A (3f), 92A (2f)
• 2000s: Boxes 53B, 55 (2f), 56A, 68A, 86B, 88A, 89A-B (2f)
• Undated: Boxes 51B, 90A

Extent: 102 folders

The Flight Safety Foundation has its origins in two organizations formed in the late 1940s. In 1947, a meeting organized by Lederer led to the creation of Aircraft Engineering for Safety, an organization focused on the dissemination of safety information. Shortly afterward, this group merged with another group that had been formed to study cockpit design, and the combined organization adopted the name of the second group, Flight Safety Foundation. Lederer served as managing director of the Foundation from its formation until 1967. This series contains records relating to the activities of the Flight Safety Foundation and Lederer's work with the Foundation.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

Aircraft Engineering for Safety, 1947-1948

• General: Boxes 67A, 88A-B (2f)

Aviation Crash Injury Research/Aviation Safety and Engineering Research, 1940s-1967

• General: Boxes 56A, 67A, 68A, 88B
• Crash Injury Research (Cornell program), 1950-1959: Boxes 50A, 87A, 92A

General, 1947-2002

Materials related to the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and its activities. These files may contain documents that fit in the other categories in this listing, but the contents of many of the files have not yet been sorted. Includes correspondence, projects, publications, reports, FSF history, administrative documents, information about/writings by FSF officers, etc.

• General: Boxes 50A (3f), 51A (2f), 52B (2f) 53A-B (2f), 54A-B (3f), 55, 56A (2f), 59A-B (2f), 60A, 62B, 66A, 67A-B (2f), 68A, 69A, 70A-B (2f), 71A (4f), 86B (3f), 87A (2f), 88A-B (2f), 89B, 90A, 91A-B (9f), 92A (2f)
• Correspondence: Boxes 71A, 91A
• FSF relationship with University of Southern California: Box 87A
• IASS award photographs, 1988: Box 62B
• Joe Chase Award, 1980: Box 86B
• Lederer Library, 1989: Boxes 62A (3f), 87A
• Mechanic's Creed (written by Lederer, 1941): Boxes 53B, 55

Personnel

• Caldara, Joseph D., 1968-1974: Box 52B
• Caldara, Joseph D. "The Birds as a Menace to Flight Safety": Box 90A
• Chase, Joe: Box 86B
• Enders, John H., 1963: Box 90A
• Hasbrook, A. Howard, 1952-1987: Box 92A
• Heath, Gloria, 1949-2001: Box 90A
• Lederer, Jerome F. East Asia trip, 1962: Box 50A (2f)

Projects and Research Areas

Additional topics may be found in the "Topical Files" series.

• Bogus parts, 1957-1964: Box 56A
• Clear air turbulence, 1958-1971: Box 56A (2f)
• Design features in personal aircraft cockpits (FSF study on cockpit design requirements),1948: Box 90A
• Ditching, air-sea rescue, evacuation, survival, 1948-1983: Boxes 67B, 71A, 90A
• Emergency evacuation, 1965-1967: Boxes 68A (2f), 71A
• Flight and ground safety, 1955-1966: Box 90B
• Project CAPTACS (Current And Proposed Terminal Area Control Systems), 1966-1967: Box 90A (2f)
• Turbulence Project (also SST), 1963-1967: Box 71A (2f)

Publications

Note: Additional FSF publications are available in other sections of MS-016, Flight Safety Foundation Jerry Lederer Aviation Safety Library.

• Accident Prevention Bulletin: Box 91A
• Airport Safety Bulletin: Box 91A
• Bogus Parts, 1957-1964: Box 56A
• Flight Safety Digest, 1982-1987: Box 88A (2f)
• Miscellaneous: Box 91A (3f)
• Notes from the Flight Safety Foundation, Inc. (monthly release): Box 91A (5f)
• Notes on Aircraft Accident Investigation, 1949-1952: Box 91A (4f)

Seminars, Workshops and Courses

• Annual safety seminars, 1950-1951: Box 53B
• First FSF accident investigation course, Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, 8-12 November 1948: Boxes 52B, 90A
• IASS award photographs, 1988: Box 62B

Extent: 33 folders

This series contains records related to Lederer's work establishing and serving as the director (1967-1970) of the Office of Manned Space Flight Safety for NASA following the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire and his subsequent service as NASA Director of Safety (1970-1972). Also included is later material collected by Lederer related to NASA and space exploration.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General, 1967-2001: Boxes 51A, 52B, 53B, 54B, 55, 59A, 60A, 66B, 67A, 68A-B (2f), 69A-B (6f), 71A, 86B, 87A, 88A, 89B, 91A, 92A
• Apollo 8, 1968: Box 56A
• Apollo badges/passes: Box 62A
• Apollo program: Boxes 50A (2f), 69A
• Correspondence, 1967-1971: Box 86B
• NASA - Boeing - TIE System Safety Analysis Review, 1968: Box 54A
• Operations and Maintenance Safety Evaluation of NASA Johnson Space Center Aircraft Operations Division, Ellington AFB, Houston, Texas, November 29 - December 2, 1982: Box 91B
• Retirement from NASA, 1972: Boxes 67A (2f), 71A
• Space (see also general files): Boxes 68A, 69B, 55

Extent: 68 folders

This series contains materials related to committees and organizations of which Lederer was a member, as well as other organizations from which Lederer collected information.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General, 1938-2002: Boxes 50A, 53B (2f), 54A, 55, 59A, 60A, 66B, 67A, 68A, 70B, 86B, 88A, 89B
• Ad Hoc Committee on the Transportation of Plutonium by Air, National Research Council, 1977-1978: Boxes 60A, 86B, 87A
• Aero-Medical Engineering Research Institute, ca. 1948: Box 50B
• Air Mail Pioneers: See "Aviation History" series
• Airline Stewards and Stewardesses Association: Box 90A
• Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA): Boxes 69B, 87A
• American Astronautical Society, 1976: Box 50A
• Aviation Facilities Study Group, 1955: Box 87A
• Aviation/Space Writers Association. "Air Accidents and the Newswriter," 1983: Box 91B
• Civil Aeronautics Administration, 1950: Box 67B
• Civil Aeronautics Board, 1965: Box 70A
• Federal Aviation Administration: Boxes 60A, 86B
• Guggenheim Medal Board of Award, 1998: Box 66B
• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), 1980: Box 69B
• ICAO Human Factors Seminar, USSR (1990), 1981-1990: Box 68A (2f)
• ICAO Accident Investigation and Prevention (AIG) Divisional Meeting, 1997-1999: Box 55
• Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), 1980, 1992: Boxes 51A, 55
• International Center for Safety Education, Tempe, Ariz., 1988: Box 87A
• International Institute for Human Performance, 1991: Box 51A
• ISASI, 1969-2001: Boxes 50A, 55, 60A, 69B, 86B, 92A
• Joint Industry/Government Tall Structures Committee. "Specific Criteria to Be Used by Radio /Television and Aviation Interests Relative to Height and Location of New Antenna Structures and New Airports," 1957-1963: Box 90A
• Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award Board: Box 53B
• National Academy of Engineering, 1997-2000: Boxes 51B, 54A
• National Aeronautic Association: Box 91A
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 2000: Boxes 51B, 53B, 55, 60A, 68A, 87A
• National Safety Council: Boxes 86B, 87A
• National Symposium on Product Safety, 1968: Box 90A
• National Transportation Safety Board, 1977-1994: Boxes 60A, 68B, 69B
• Naval Training Device Advisory Council, 1961: Box 69B
• Ostriches Anonymous Association: Box 68A
• OX5 Aviation Pioneers, 1986, 1994: Boxes 87B, 90A
• SAE, 1963-2000: Boxes 51A, 53B, 68B, 86B
• SCSI - Cabin Safety, 1997-1998: Box 88A
• Wings Club, 1965-1967: Boxes 53B, 66A

Extent: 109 folders

This series contains material relating to people other than Jerry Lederer, including biographical information and clippings, writings and correspondence between these individuals and Lederer. The bulk of this series consists of papers and articles written by various authors, primarily on aviation and/or safety-related topics; the majority of these writings have not yet been sorted by author. See also the "Correspondence" series, as well as the "Flight Safety Foundation" series for information on Foundation personnel.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• Information on various individuals: Boxes 50A, 51A, 68B, 89B
• Writings by various individuals, 1937-2001: Boxes 50A (3f), 51A (3f), 52B, 53B (4f), 54A-B (4f), 55, 56A, 59A (3f), 60A (4f), 66B (2f), 67A (4f), 68A-B (4f), 69A-B (4f), 70B, 71A, 86B, 87A (6f), 88B, 89B (2f), 92A (2f)
• Armstrong, Neil, 1975-1988: Box 87A
• Besco, Robert O. (includes collaboration with Lederer and Ostriches Anonymous Association): Boxes 53B, 54A-B (3f), 68A, 69A, 86B, 89A
• Bleck, Zina T. (USSR Trip), 1990: Box 68A
• Chase, Joe (Joe Chase Award), 1980: Box 86B
• Collins, Jimmy, test pilot, 1934-1935: Box 50B
• Cooper, Geo. E. "Resource Management for the Flight Deck" (workshop), 1979: Box 69B
• Cooper, George E. "Some Recent Research Related to Approach Problems": Box 90A
• Culver, Edith Dodd. Talespins: A Story of Early Aviation Days. Santa Fe, N.Mex.: Sunstone Press, 1986: Box 68A (2f)
• deHaven, Hugh: Boxes 86B, 92A
• Dinerman Bernhart V. "Final Report. Evaluation of Area Navigation in the Northeast Corridor," 1970: Box 90A
• Doolittle, James H.: Boxes 60A, 87A
• Ferry, T. S. "Multidisciplinary References for Aircraft Accident Investigation," 1975: Box 91B
• Gilbert, Glen A. "Area Navigation in Commuter/Taxi Operations," 1970: Box 90A
• Gilbert, Glen A. "Is RNAV Cost Effective?" reprint from Flight Journal of Executive Aviation, 1972: Box 90A
• Goddard, R. H.: Box 66B
• Harris, Harold R.: Box 88B
• Heath, G. W. "Helio Courier" (incomplete) Skyways September 1955: Box 90A
• Heath, W. G. "The Changing Scene of Structural Airworthiness," 1980: Box 90A
• Hislop, "Final Report of the Clear Air Gust Research Project." British European Airways Corp. RSD Report no. 15. 1950: Box 56A
• Johnson, D. A. "Passenger Behavior in Survivable Aircraft Accidents: Inaction Under Stress as a Significant Behavior," 1969: Box 90A
• Johnson, Larry K.: Box 90A
• King, Stephen, 1971: Box 55
• Laughlin, T. F., Jr. "Inlet Unstarts at Supersonic Speeds – Nuisance or Problem?": Box 90A
• Lindbergh, Charles A.: Boxes 53B, 55, 56A, 87A, 89B, 92B
• Lowery, John. "Why Three Engines" and reply by Allen E. Paulson: Box 90A
• Lowry, L. M.: Box 59A
• McFarland, R. A. "The Effects of Altitude on Pilot Performance": Box 90B
• Miller, C. O.: Boxes 53B, 67A, 90A
• Norris, Jack "Voyager. The World Flight," 1987: Box 92A
• Peters, G. A., and F. S. Hall. "To Cut Down Accidents Design for Safety," 1965: Box 90A
• Pogue, L. Welch, 1998: Box 53B
• Sikorsky, 1972: Box 54B
• Speas, R. Dixon: Box 90A
• Stapp, John Paul, 1984-1991: Boxes 67A, 92A
• Turney, H. W., Jr. "Navigation for Surface and Aerospace Vehicles by a Very Low Frequency Radio Network": Box 90A
• Wood, Richard H.: Boxes 53B, 60A, 68A
• Wright Brothers: Box 92B

Extent: 185 folders

This series contains files on various topics, mostly aviation-related. Some of the files may be related to Flight Safety Foundation projects.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• "7 MAG" friction reducing coating: Box 90A
• Accident analysis code for punch card system and information on card sort systems: Box 90B
• Accident investigation:
• General, 1960-1973: Boxes 59A, 70B, 90A
• Bureau of Air Commerce, Accident Investigation Procedures, 1938: Box 50A
• Aeronautic safety code, 1925: Box 68B
• Air Commerce Regulations. Alteration and Repair of Aircraft. Aeronautics Bulletin No. 7-H, 1936-1948: Box 54A
• Air traffic control with all subject and subheadings, i.e., air collision avoidance, 1969: Box 90A
• Aircraft, 1929-1938: Box 54A
• Aircraft accidents:
• Various, 1982-2002: Boxes 53B, 54A, 55, 68A, 69B, 88A, 89B
• Arrow Air, Gander, Newfoundland (1985), 1984-1992: Box 56A
• NTSB accident reports, 1996: Box 54A
• Tenerife: Box 59A
• TWA 800 (1996): Boxes 53B, 60A, 68A, 88A
• TWA Flight 6, DC-3, NC17315, Robertson, Missouri: Box 67A
• Aircraft Design-Induced Pilot Error: NTSB, 1967: Box 69B
• Aircraft equipment, 2001: Box 55
• Aircraft performance: Box 50A
• Aircraft seats, 1951-1964: Boxes 66A, 66B
• The Airport and Its Neighbors, 1989: Box 56A
• Airport facilities, 1990s-2000s: Box 67A
• Airport facilities and fire protection, 1998-1999: Box 55
• Airport lighting, 1956: Boxes 66B, 68A
• Airport statistics, 1999: Box 55
• All Weather Lightplane Project: Box 52B
• Army-Navy Precipitation Static Project: Technical reports on precipitation static, 1946: Box 54A
• Automotive safety: Box 59A
• Aviation Daily, 1998: Box 70B
• Aviation directories, 1980-1988: Box 69B
• Aviation policy, 1928: Box 50A
• Aviation safety, 1942-2002: Boxes 55, 90A
• Balance Engineering, Inc.: Box 66B
• Bell Helicopter Textron: Box 68A
• Bilingual operations/Quebec, 1976: Box 59A
• Bird hazards, 1966-1971: Box 90A
• "Bird Ingestion by JT3C, JT3D and JT4 Engines," 1964: Box 90A
• Bird strikes, 1950-1970: Box 90A (2f)
• Bomb blanket, 1970-1971: Box 90B
• Burns Aerobus "Commuter" Series Seats, 1960: Box 66A
• Cabin safety, 1989-2002: Boxes 51B, 53B, 54A, 55, 69B
• Clear air turbulence, 1958-1971: Box 56A (2f)
• Cockpit management, 1996: Box 53B
• Complacency, 1955: Box 90B
• Crash Injury Research: Boxes 50A, 87A, 92A
• Crash safety efforts, 1966: Box 90A
• Cryogenic container specifications for aircraft transportation, 1972: Box 90A
• Dangerous Cargo, 1956: Box 59B
• DC-3, 1937-2000: Boxes 60A, 66B, 86B, 87A
• DC-10: Box 51A
• Dead Reckoning Computer and Kollsman Altitude-Temperature Relationship Indicator: Box 87A
• Deceleration, 1951-1967: Box 90A
• Ditching, air sea rescue, survival equipment, evacuation, 1953-1983: Boxes 67A-B (2f), 71A
• Doolittle Library, University of Texas at Dallas: Box 87A
• Drugs, 1983: Box 89B
• El Toro Marine Air Station, 1996-2000: Boxes 53A, 60A, 68A
• Embry-Riddle, 1996: Box 87A
• Emergency evacuation: Boxes 68A (2f), 71A, 90A-B (2f)
• Engineers and risk issues: Box 69B
• Executive protection: Box 55
• Fire and explosion hazards: Boxes 52B, 68B, 71A
• Fire and fire fighting: Box 70B
• Fire suppression, 1968: Box 52B
• Flight data recorders, 1974-1975: Box 53B
• Flight deck automation: Box 70B
• Flight engineers, 1948: Box 50A
• Flight Forum Air Safety Study, 1964: Box 70B
• Flight training, 1968: Box 52B
• "Foreign Object Ingestion (Other than Birds) in JT3C, JT3D and JT4 Engines," 1964: Box 90A
• Fuel quality control: Box 90A
• Fuel tanks: Box 68B
• "Full Time Engineers": Box 70B
• Gunnery Sense: Some Hints for Air Gunners," 1942: Box 54A
• Hazards associated with adding low-vapor pressure fuels to tanks that had contained a high-vapor pressure fuel, 1971: Box 90A
• Health and medicine: Boxes 50B, 89B
• Helmets, 1959-1963: Box 90B
• Human factors: Boxes 90A-B (5f)
• IATA restricted articles regulations, 1969: Box 90B
• IMCO press release: International maritime dangerous goods code, 1965: Box 90B
• Inertial navigation systems "Carousel IV": Contains D. B, Duncan, "combined Doppler Radar and Inertial Navigation Systems," 1959: Box 90A
• Insurance (see also "Aviation Insurance" series): Box 67A
• Jet Wake Survey, 707-120 - Boeing, 1959-1960: Box 86B
• Jets, 1959-1968: Box 70B
• The Journal of Educational Sociology Issue on "Safety Education for Modern Living," 1946: Box 69B
• Lighting and Marking Obstructions to Air Navigation, 1954: Box 53A
• Lloyd's Aviation Bulletin, 1975: Box 60B
• Maritime, 1965-1981: Boxes 86B, 90B
• Mechanic's Creed, 1995: Boxes 53B, 55
• Medical tips: Aircraft accident prevention and investigation: Box 54A
• Nader, 1970: Box 90A
• NASA - Boeing - TIE System Safety Analysis Review, 1968: Box 54A
• National Airlines: Box 68A
• National Airspace System Plan, 1988: Box 69B
• Navigation, 1931-1973: Box 90A (4f)
• Navy aviation safety: Box 66B
• NTSB report: "A Comparison of Aircraft Accident Data Involving U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Five-Year Period 1962-1966": Box 90B
• Nuclear industry and nuclear power, 1978-1989: Boxes 55, 60A, 67A, 89B
• Passenger safety and emergency egress, 1973: Box 90B
• Pilot fatigue, 1958-1973: Box 90B
• Pilot qualifications/training, 1979: Box 67A
• Pilots: Box 66B
• Pilot's Code, 1955-1973: Box 88B
• Pilot's health and hygiene, 1953-1969: Box 90A
• Quotations: Box 50A
• RADAR, 1970-1972: Box 90B
• Radiation, 1950-1970: Box 90B
• Rescue/emergency evacuation, 1949-1963: Box 71A (2f)
• RNAV or area navigation, 1954-1963: Box 90A
• Runway conditions: Box 90B
• Safe Flight Instrument Corporation - SCAT: Box 52B
• Safety booklets: Box 54B
• Safety: Dated correspondence on flight and ground safety, 1955-1966: Box 90B
• Safety: Flight safety - air safety - ground safety involving aircraft, 1954-1967: Box 90B
• Salt Lake City Department of Airports, 2001: Box 55
• San Diego Aero-Space Museum, 1986: Box 67A
• Schiphol Airport, Runway nr. 23: Approach lighting system and runway marking, 1954: Box 90B
• Science ethics/whistleblowers, 1988: Box 66B
• Search and rescue, 1952-1964: Box 71A
• Seats (also F-27 "Friendship"), 1957-1964: Box 66B
• Security, 1975-1980: Box 54A-B (2f), 68B
• Sleep, Wakefulness and Circadian Rhythm: AGARD Lecture Series no. 105, 1979: Box 87A
• Stall warning indicator, 1947-1996: Box 68B
• Statistics, 1961-1980: Boxes 50B, 51A (2f)
• Statistics and aviation underwriting, 1954-1961: Box 71A
• Statistics and measurement of safety (includes Lederer writings), 1953-1967: Box 86B
• Study of Rescue Aspects of Aircraft Crash Fires on U.S Airports: Box 71A
• Supersonic Transport (SST), 1988: Box 87A
• "Survey and Evaluation of the Need for Runway Arresting Mechanisms for Commercial Air Carrier Operations," 1969: Box 91B
• Survival: AF Manual 64-5, 1952: Box 87A
• Survival/search and rescue, 1958-1986: Box 67A
• System safety engineering, 1967-1972: Box 90A
• Terrorism: Boxes 54A, 67A, 88A
• Test flying/test pilots, 1954-1956: Box 71A
• TIPS Europe (Travel in Peace and Safety Europe): Box 55
• Tips on writing and instruction: Box 70B
• United Airlines (photographs): Box 59A
• U.S. History, 1975: Box 89B
• Velcro tape fasteners, 1968: Box 90A
• Weather, 1949-1966: Box 52B (2f)
• Weather; windshear; flight through radioactive clouds, 1954-1962: Box 56A
• Windshear, 1985: Box 60A
• "A World Beyond War": Box 54A
• World War II, 1941-1945: Boxes 70B, 86B

Extent: 7 folders

This series contains documents related to the University of Southern California (USC) and its Institute of Safety and Systems Management. The Flight Safety Foundation formed a partnership with USC during the 1970s, and Lederer also was an adjunct professor at USC.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

• General, 1952-1992: Boxes 51A, 54B, 56A, 67A, 69B, 87A, 92A

Processing of the Lederer Papers is ongoing. In addition to the series listed, there is significant material that is unprocessed/partially processed and not yet classified within a series. A preliminary list of the files containing these items is available below.

Please note: Items that were in original folders have not been processed. They are included on this listing using the original label information from the folder. This original label may or may not correspond to the actual contents of the folder as folders may have been reused.

• Advertisements and brochures, 1997: Box 68B
• Books and websites (advertisements): Box 54A
• Brochures, 1997 and undated: Boxes 54A, 60A, 69B
• Clippings, 1930-2001: Boxes 50A, 51A (2f), 53A-B (3f), 54A-B (4f), 55 (2f), 56A, 59A, 60A-B (3f), 66A, 68A-B (2f), 69A-B (4f), 70B, 71A, 86B, 87A, 88A, 89B (4f), 92A
• ERA inventory items (correspondence; writings by others), 1938-1978: Box 51A
• Items sent by Lederer to FSF, 1998: Box 53B
• JL correspondence, National Aeronautic Association, CAB, NACA. Also includes other correspondence, news clippings, newsletters, writings and speeches by Lederer, notes, early FSF, reports, etc., 1940s-1950s: Box 91A
• Miscellaneous to sort, 1951-2001: Boxes 50A, 53B, 55, 59A, 60A, 67A, 68B, 69B, 70B, 71A, 86B, 89B (3f), 92A
• Newsletters, 1947-2002: Boxes 50B, 51A, 53B, 54A, 59A, 60A, 68A, 69B, 70B, 87A, 89B
• Notes: Boxes 52B, 54A, 55, 56A, 68A-B (3f), 69A, 86B, 89B (2f)
• Original folders (unlabeled), 1919-2003: Boxes 50A (3f), 51A (2f), 52A-B (3f), 53A-B (15f), 54A-B (6f), 55 (5f), 56A-B (8f), 59A (5f), 60A (5f), 66A-B (9f), 67A, 68A-B (4f), 69A-B (2f), 70B (3f), 71A, 87A, 89B (15f), 92A (4f)
• Original folder, labeled as "1966": Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "1984," 1945-1985: Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as "1986," 1940-1968: Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as "35 San Juan Int'l. Airport #690558, 26 Feb 1969": Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "850183; 850184; Scientific Methods for Use in the Investigation of Flight Crew Requirement," 1949: Box 87B
• Original folder, labeled as "Acceptance Speech for the Arthur Williams Award": Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Accidents General," 1936-1998: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Aero Club," 1977-1982: Box 60A
• Original folder, labeled as "Aero Engineering and Advisory Service," 1931: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "Air Force Industry Midair Collision Prevention Conference," 1976: Box 51A
• Original folder, labeled as "Air Traffic Control," 1950-1998: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Aircraft Accid. Investigation" (actually contains NASA investigation and reporting guidelines), 1969: Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as "Aircraft," 1954-1997: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Airlines," 1977-1997: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Airport Fires - Installations," 1959-1964: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Airports": Box 55
• Original folder, labeled as "ATC," 1937-1968: Box 67B
• Original folder, labeled as "Aviation Education," 1966: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Aviation Files; Jerry's Writings," 1951-1998: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "Aviation History," 1918-1995: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "Aviation," 1948-2000: Box 55
• Original folder, labeled as "Backward/Forward Facing Seating; High Wing vs Low Wing; Motion Sickness," 1958: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Besco," 1945-1995: Box 89B
• Original folder, labeled as "Biorhythm," 1961-1974: Box 51A
• Original folder, labeled as "C.A.B. General," 1942-1976: Box 60A
• Original folder, labeled as "CAB," 1942: Box 92A
• Original folder, labeled as "CAT Backgrounds Information," 1964: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "CAT Project Correspondence," 1964-1967: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "CAT, Chron File, Jerry Lederer," 1965-1967: Box 59A
• Original folder, labeled as "Check Lists," 1948-1951: Box 59A
• Original folder, labeled as "Club 10500 letters sent in with questionnaire Gen Av We Study," 1954-1964: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "College of Aeronautics," 1965-1998: Box 60A
• Original folder, labeled as "Comm Equiments," 1940-1989: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "Communication Using Right Words," 1974-1998: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Communications 1955," 1954-1956: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Cooper," 1968-1993: Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "Corresp. - Misc.," 1957-1949: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "Correspondence on Approach & Landing," 1954-1961: Box 56B
• Original folder, labeled as "Correspondence," 1955-1967: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "Crash Barriers Arresting Gear," 1958-1965: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Crash Injuring [sic]," 1948-1954: Box 54B
• Original folder, labeled as "Crash Locator Beacons," 1969: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "Crash Survival," 1951-1977: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "Creeds (include Pax Creed and Lederer Obits)," 1942-2002: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Crew Manning," 1948-1952: Box 59A
• Original folder, labeled as "Dad's Outline," 1954: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Daniel Guggenheim Medal Award June 27, 1962," 1962-1999: Box 55
• Original folder, labeled as "De Anza," 1964-1968: Box 60A
• Original folder, labeled as "Direct and Incidental Accident Costs": Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as "Ditching," 1948-1957: Box 67B
• Original folder, labeled as "Ditching," 1952-1954: Box 53A
• Original folder, labeled as "Ditching - S+R," 1953-1965: Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "Doolittle Library," 1995: Box 60A
• Original folder, labeled as "Emergency Techniques over Water Operations," 1948-1962: Box 53B
• Original folder, labeled as "Explosive Technology," 1967: Box 89B
• Original folder, labeled as "Explosives, Accident Prevention Plan," 1967: Box 89B
• Original folder, labeled as "FAA & Other Govt. Agencies," 1939-1997: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "File Copy," 1959-1960: Box 87B
• Original folder, labeled as "Fire," 1949-1977: Box 51A
• Original folder, labeled as "Flight Data Recorder Project," 1957-1966: Box 53A
• Original folder, labeled as "Flight Engineers," 1947-1960: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Flight Safety Foundation," 1970-1971: Box 86B
• Original folder, labeled as "Flight Safety Foundation 2-Day Seminar, 1955," 1955: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Forest and Stream," 1923-1924: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Annual Reports - Extras," 1950: Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Awards Program Calendar - 1/71," 1971: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Historical," 1967: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Proposal N-67-11, Sherman M. Fairchild Subscription Program," 1967-1968: Box 56B
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Proposal N-67-12, Greater Cincinnati Airport," 1967: Box 56B
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Proposal N-67-13," 1967-1968: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Proposal N-67-9, National Data Center," 1948-1986: Box 59A
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Proposal N-67-10, Ground Traffic Control System," 1967: Box 56B
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF Seminar San Carlos Hotel, Chandler, Ariz. (Photos)": Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "FSF," 1948-1954: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "Fuel," 1967-1970: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Gen. Correspondence," 1950-1967: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "General," 1948-1994: Box 68A
• Original folder, labeled as "Guggenheim Award," 1963: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Hal Spogis; Letter to USA Today," 1999: Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Hall of Fame," 1968-1997: Box 53B
• Original folder, labeled as "Hazards - Cigarette Lighters," 1964-1965: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "History 'Biographical Sketch' Lt. Colonel John Paul Stapp": Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "ICAO," 1960-1999: Box 69B
• Original folder, labeled as "Improving Pilot Performance by Robert O. Besco and Jerome F. Lederer": Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Industry Advisory Committee," 1965-1993: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "ISASI 2000 Information," 1952-2000: Box 55
• Original folder, labeled as "ISASI," 1972-1998: Box 89B
• Original folder, labeled as "J. L. Personal, Misc.," 1931-1996: Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as "J. Lederer," 1960-1986: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "J. L. 100th Birthday. FSD Aug - Sept 2002 (2c.) FSD bound issue (1c.)," 2002: Box 62B
• Original folders, labeled as "J. L. Bios," 1937-2003: Box 62B (3f)
• Original folder, labeled as "J. L. Photos": Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerome F. Lederer," 1939-1987: Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerome Lederer at Wright Brothers Smithsonian Ceremony," 1964: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerome Lederer Chron, 1971," 1971: Box 86B
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerome Lederer Material," 1963-1983: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerome Lederer Personal - 1971," 1971: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerome Lederer Presenting Award of Merit to Vernon Taylor," 1959: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerome Lederer," 1975-1980: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerry Biog," 1950s-2000: Box 55
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerry Lederer," 1963-2000: Box 89B
• Original folder, labeled as "Jerry Lederer," 2002: Box 62B
• Original Folder, labeled as "Jerry," 1933-1994: Box 51A
• Original folder, labeled as "JL Awards," 1969-2002: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "JL Awards, Congrats," 1974-2003: Box 88A
• Original folder, labeled as "JL Awards, Congrats, Articles about JL, Bios," 2004: Box 62B
• Original folders, labeled as "JL's Personal File" 1907-1978: Box 86A (3f)
• Original folder, labeled as "Joe Chase," 1971-1981: Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "Journal of the Institute of Navigation," 1960-1967: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Landings," 1951-1962: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "League Wives," 1939: Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer Clippings," 1967-1991: Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer Letters," 2002: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer Papers," 1937-1998: Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer," 1951-1998: Box 54A
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer," 1955-1993: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer," 1960-1994: Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer," 1997: Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as "Lederer" (photographs): Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "Legal," 1966: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "Lindbergh," 1972-2002: Box 53B
• Original folder, labeled as "Lockheed 1011," 1966-1968: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Lockheed, Electra," 1956-1963: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Management & Operations," 1956-1958: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Management," 1965-1987: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Managing Contract Committee, 1983," 1982-1983: Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Manned Flight Awareness Program," 1964-1968: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "Matches in Aircraft," 1959: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "Medicare 1989," 1987-1989: Box 54A
• Original folder, labeled as "Memos 1974," 1948-1974: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Methodology Talk," 1940-1962: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Miscellaneous," 1954-1967: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Miscellaneous," 1958-1967: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "Mr. Jerome Lederer," 1942-1998: Box 54A
• Original folder, labeled as "Mr. Jerome Lederer," 1968-1998: Box 53A
• Original folder, labeled as "NASA - General, 1965-1996," 1965-1996: Box 60A
• Original folder, labeled as "NASA Photos, Wake Turbulence," 1970: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "NASA/CAT Project Replies Received," 1963-1967: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "NTSB," 1961-1997: Box 50A
• Original folder, labeled as "NYU," 1922-1955: Box 92A
• Original folder, labeled as "Passengers," 1953-1968: Box 56B
• Original folder, labeled as "Patents," 1926-1940: Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Penn-Central Airlines," 1933-1958: Box 70A
• Original folder, labeled as "Personal," 1967-1990s: Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Photos J. Lederer. Donated Dec. 2002: Box 62B
• Original folder, labeled as "Photos": Box 62B
• Original folders, labeled as "Pilot Training," 1946-1967: Boxes 59A-B (2f)
• Original folder, labeled as "Pilots," 1952-1963: Box 59A
• Original folder, labeled as "Power Line Marking," 1962-1970: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "Private Flying (Aircraft and Private Clubs) (Dated)," 1946-1967: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "Radio Beacons 61," 1953-1968: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "Rain on Windshield," 1949-1971: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Ramps," 1947-1960: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Rossmoor Regency," 1999: Box 53B
• Original folder, labeled as "Royal Airforce Institute of Aviation Medicine," 1950: Box 54B
• Original folder, labeled as "Runways, Volumes I & II, Volume II," 1930-1969: Box 70A
• Original folder, labeled as "Safe Operations," 1948-1953: Box 87A
• Original folder, labeled as "Safety and Health Hall of Fame International," 1990: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "SAVE historic," 1940: Box 89B
• Original folder, labeled as "Search and Rescue," 1948-1967: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Seats," 1957-1964: Box 66B
• Original folder, labeled as ''Space Projects," 1986: Box 67A
• Original folder, labeled as "Speculations on Air Safety and the Airport," 1972: Box 88B
• Original folder, labeled as "Speeches," 1948-1998: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Studies," 1926-1997: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Studies: How to double the air traffic rate at one of the world's busiest airports," 1926-1997: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "Survival Equipment 'Dated,'" 1959-1967: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Systems Communications," 1950-1963: Box 52A
• Original folder, labeled as "Third GAIN World Conference," 1998: Box 54A
• Original folder, labeled as "Transportation," 1952-1965: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "Turbulence (Weather). CAT - Wake - Ground Level & Air Turbulence," 1964-1969: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Turbulence General Misc.," 1958-1972: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Turf Renovation," 1953-1999: Box 89B
• Original folder, labeled as "United States Congress," 1969-1998: Box 55
• Original folder, labeled as "VASI," 1962-1971: Box 52B
• Original folder, labeled as "Visibility," 1952-1966: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Warning Systems, In-Flight On-Board Systems," 1952-1963: Box 59B
• Original folder, labeled as "Weather - Clear Air Turbulence CAT," 1964-1967: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Weather Investigation. Substratosphere," 1962-1969: Box 56B
• Original folder, labeled as "Wind Shear, Melvin - FSF," 1973-1976: Box 59A
• Original folder, labeled as "Windshield," 1948-1960: Box 56A
• Original folder, labeled as "Work Sheet N.R; J W H," 1959-1963: Box 71A
• Original folder, labeled as "Wright Brothers": Box 55
• Original folder, labeled as "Wright, Selfridge," 1978-1982: Box 60A
• Original folder, labeled as "Writing and Speeches by Lederer," 1940-1976: Box 70B
• Original folder, labeled as "Xerox Copy of Flight Safety Foundation and Aviation Safety," 1968-1999: Box 87A
• Photographs, 1929-1988 and undated: Boxes 50A, 54A, 60A, 67A-B (2f), 68B, 70B, 86B, 87A, 88A, 92A
• Photographs and artwork: Box 88A
• Unidentified writings: Boxes 53B, 71A

This series contains articles, publications, speeches, lectures and other presentations by Jerry Lederer. An inventory is forthcoming; please contact the Archives for information.

Note: Processing of the collection is ongoing. In addition to the material identified below, additional items of interest may be located in the unprocessed portions of the collection. Please contact the archivist for additional information.

Historic publications make up the core of the Aviation and Aerospace History Collection in the Hazy Library's Special Collections. These publications document the rich history of human flight from ballooning in the 19th century to modern aircraft.

Illustrations from the 1917 book “Acquiring Wings: A Text on the Basic Principles Governing the Design and Operation of Modern Aircraft” by William B. Stout.

Another collection that can be found in the Hazy Library's Special Collections is the Aviation and Aerospace History Collection. Library visitors perusing the historic aviation magazines in the collection will find snippets of Embry‑Riddle history in advertisements, photographs and articles.

Advertisement (left) for the Embry‑Riddle Company's flight school at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati (Photo: Aero Digest, September 1929), and an advertisement (right) about Embry‑Riddle's work to support the war effort during World War II. (Photo: Aero Digest, January 15, 1944)

Illustration from "Give America's Youth Aviation Education" by Congressman Henry J. Latham, who advocated creating aviation education programs in all public schools. (Photo: Flying, March 1952)

The Prescott Campus History Collection in the Hazy Library's Special Collections also has memorabilia such as the annual scrapbooks from the Golden Eagles Flight Team.

One highlight of the 1987-1988 Golden Eagles scrapbook is the section about the regional SAFECON competition, which Embry‑Riddle hosted at Prescott's Ernest A. Love Field.

Photographs and captions in the scrapbook tell the story of the Golden Eagles' involvement as hosts of the event and also gives glimpses into the Golden Eagle's experience as participants in the competition.

The Golden Eagles came out at the top of the competition results and were also lauded for their excellent performance as event hosts.

The Prescott Campus History Collection, part of the Hazy Library's Special Collections, chronicles the history, development and activities of Embry‑Riddle's western campus.

Highlights of the collection include student publications such as The Echo yearbook (first published in 1982) as well as student newspapers.

The following extract from a 1980 issue of The Pioneer (predecessor to today's Horizons) focuses on a mid-air collision that occurred over Prescott's Love Field in the days before the airport had a control tower. Fortunately, both planes were able to land safely, and no one was injured.

Among the holdings that make up the Aviation and Aerospace History Collection in the Hazy Library's Special Collections are the papers of World War II aviator Joseph F. Mullen (1921-1977).

Following his flight training, Mullen was assigned to the 80th Fighter Group (known as the "Burma Banshees"), which was stationed in India and supported Allied ground operations in Burma. Mullen flew 128 combat missions during 1943-1944.

Lieutenant Stromborn with flight students at Shaw Field, Sumter, South Carolina, January 23, 1943. Pictured (l-r) are Joseph F. Mullen (Massachusetts), D. P. Morgan (Delaware), R. H. Mullineaux (New York), 2nd. Lt. Stromborn (Massachusetts), J. R. Morgan (New Jersey), J. F. Mitchell (Massachusetts) and Gordon Bennett (Massachusetts).

A portion of Lt. Joseph Mullen's "Pilot's Progress Card" documenting his P-40 training at the Air Corps Advanced Flying School at Craig Field, Selma, Alabama.