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Rocket used by Goddard to achieve the first flight of a liquid-propellant rocket.

• First net thrust by a Goddard liquid fuel rocket.

  Returning to the simple pressure feeding of the liquid propellants, to reduce weight, Goddard obtained in the Clark University Physical Laboratories a 24-sec test in which the lift was great enough to raise the rocket the last half of the run.

• Goddard test of liquid rocket.

  Rocket trembled in its support for 8 sec.

• Goddard test of liquid rocket.

  Rocket again quivered for 17 sec.

• Goddard test of liquid rocket.

  The lift raised the rocket motor the full distance it could travel. Outdoor tests with a flight model were begun on March 8, 1926.

• First flight of a Goddard liquid-propellant rocket.

  Goddard achieves the first flight of a liquid-propellant rocket at Aunt Effie's Farm, Auburn, Massachusetts. Altitude 41 ft; average speed 60 mph; in air 2.5 sec; landed 184 ft from launching frame; total path 220 ft. This event was the "Kitty Hawk" of rocketry.

• Second flight of a Goddard liquid-propellant rocket

  Goddard achieves the second flight of a liquid-propellant rocket. In air 4.2 sec; landed 50 ft from testing stand.

• Smithsonian informed of rocket test.

  Robert H. Goddard communicated the results of his successful liquid-propellant rocket flight of March 16 to the Smithsonian Institution.

• 482 - Goddard, Robert H, Collected Papers of Robert H Goddard, .