Goddard 20x Rocket - Goddard scaled his first rocket up by 20x. It was a failure. 21,992 bytes. 229 x 511 pixels.

After several tests indicating the model was too small to permit refinements, Goddard decided to build a rocket twenty-fold larger. During 1926 a new tower was built, and flow regulators, multiple liquid injection into large combustion chambers, means for measurement of pressure and lifting force, electrically fired igniter, and turntable for rotation were developed.

• Goddard turns to larger liquid propellant rockets.

  After several tests indicating the model was too small to permit refinements, Goddard decided to build a rocket twenty-fold larger. During 1926 a new tower was built, and flow regulators, multiple liquid injection into large combustion chambers, means for measurement of pressure and lifting force, electrically fired igniter, and turntable for rotation were developed.

• Attempt to launch Goddard large model rocket

  Goddard's large model rocket set up in tower for the first time. Rocket and turntable lifted several times in following months, but no flights were obtained with the large model.

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