Old flying videos

[mike mcs repair]

1931 Grass Valley, California: Gilmore Bros. and their planes including cabin model that was never flown but designed in 1908.
the "E" in experimental!
notice how the "door/wall" opens down to the ground?
http://www.archive.org/details/GilmoreB1931

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Gilmore

Gilmore moved to Red Bluff, California early in the 1890's where he built a glider with a eighteen-foot wing span. Towed by a horse, the glider flew, but when the horse realized what was above, it bolted.

flying, first part big planes, then gets to small ones...
1953 How businesspeople can benefit from general aviation. With many shots of flying businessmen, airports and airport and aviation facilities in the Fifties. Kodachrome.
http://www.archive.org/details/FlyingBu1953

1927 Aviation's elite converges on Oakland for the Dole race to Hawaii.
looks like half the planes were lost at sea!!!! 2 crashed on take-off......
http://www.archive.org/details/DoleAirR1927

Earl C. Anthony, Terraplane automobile dealer, takes pictures of airplane landing atop Terraplane car.
jumping from plane to car...
http://www.archive.org/details/Terrapla1932

1955 agricultural use... success of DDT??
http://www.archive.org/details/Agricult1955

more
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=plane%20AND%20collection%3Aprelinger

1948 alaska
http://www.archive.org/details/AlaskaAM1948

 

[Tim]

What a find, very interesting

 

[spinner2]

Not a video but it is an image from a slide that the fellow in the image had taken with his camera when he flew for Mudhole Smith. Probably taken in 1959.