This Day in Aviation History
The first flight of a liquid-propellant rocket took place on March 16, 1926 at Auburn, Massachusetts, when American professor Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched a vehicle using liquid oxygen and gasoline as propellants.[4] The rocket, which was dubbed “Nell”, rose just 41 feet during a 2.5-second flight that ended in a cabbage field, but it was an important demonstration that liquid-fueled rockets were possible. Goddard proposed liquid propellants about fifteen years earlier and began to seriously experiment with them in 1921….

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Wikipedia, Liquid-propellant rocket:  http://gstv.us/1Bn7sUX

YouTube, First Liquid-Fueled Rocket:  http://gstv.us/1BK0BK5

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