This Day in Aviation History
March 16th, 1926
First flight of a liquid-propellant rocket.
 
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. 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….
 
Source:
Wikipedia, Liquid-propellant rocket: http://gstv.us/1Bn7sUX
 
YouTube, First Liquid-Fueled Rocket: http://gstv.us/1BK0BK5

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