Goddard’s dream finally became a reality on November 20, 1925, when he set up a test over Rochester, New York. His crew consisted of the pilot, two lieutenants from the Army Ordnance Corps, his research partner « Doc » Burke, and himself. Armed with a super-size powder bomb, fourteen feet long and eight inches in diameter, packed with eighty pounds of explosive, the crew took off. They dropped the bomb around 11 o’clock at night over the city. Twenty seconds later it exploded with a tremendous blast and brilliant light which was so fast it took the place of a shutter in the camera. The results took awhile to process, since they had to land the plane in darkness, get to their hotel – difficult because of the mass panic the explosion had caused. Later that day, the newspapers proudly displayed the world’s first photograph ever taken at night from an airplane.