This has got to be the coolest site I've ever seen. They have tons of
public domain archives of classic videos - I mean OLD stuff - free for the
download.

1955 Modern radar for passenger aircraft

1944 ads for employment opportunities at a propeller making plant during the
war

up-to-the minute details of plane travel circa 1965.

Scenes of Pan American's China Clippers flying in and around San Francisco
Bay, including through the incomplete towers of the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge - 1935

and this is just a small sampling of just the aviation stuff!

http://www.archive.org/movies/movies...r&cat=Aviation

Jay, you may want to link to this - no copyright issues here LOL!