I'm traveling in a week and I need to get about 30 VHS tapes with me that have commercially produced material on them. What sort of precautions or protections should I look at for them surviving the trip through the airport? I'm most worried about the x-ray machine etc, not necessarily physical protection.

Jacob, if you carry them on with you, you shouldn't have any problems with them going thru the x-ray machine. If you want to be safe you could always fed-ex them ahead of time to your location.