Animating: The First Liquid Fuelled Rocket

In order to draw the first rocket to be fuelled by a liquid substance, I had to first find out what it looked like on launch, something much easier to do than with the previous weaponry, as it is more recent (within the last 100 years,) thus, cameras and the like were around also.

Here, is Robert Goddard, stood proudly next to his (beautiful) invention.

Taken from en.wikipedia.org

With a picture as a visual reference to inform my drawing, what I then needed was to know how, exactly, the contraption worked in order to animate it accurately. After finding a video reference, I decided to give up on knowing how the frame reacted to launch (I have my ideas, but they are probably inaccurate). Instead, I will use lots of smoke screen to cover it, as is shown in the video found below. I think it should be alright, as it is a recording of perhaps not the first, but more certainly one of the sequential launching of said missile.