IQSY Tomahawk history and pictures

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watermelonman

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When I look for IQSY Tomahawk information all I ever find is kits and other hobby rockets, and sometimes blueprints.

Anyone have a real history or color photograph of the genuine article? Digging deeper I found a paragraph about how it never made flights in time for IQSY events and was used primarily as a sustainer on top of Nike boosters, but that is about it. No color photographs, either.
 
Wow, I am definitely surprised at the lack of information. Maybe I should try to collect all the tidbits I find here.
 
I have a PDF copy of Model Rocket News from 1971 with the D-region but no joy so far on the IQSY Tomahawk.
 
Ah, those help a lot. Thanks!

I will still try to aggregate what else I find here. That text from timbucktoo and JAL3 sounds exactly like what I had read before -
The Tomahawk, based on the Thiokol TE-416 Motor, was designed by the Sandia Corp. as a small sounding rockets in the International Quiet Sun Year (IQSY) in 1963. Initial tests from Tonopah, Nevada and Point Mugu, California failed. The fourth launch from Wallops Island was a success, but it was not used in the IQSY experiments. NASA used another Version, the D-Region Tomahawk in 1968, but little further use of it was made.

Although it lacked success as a single stage sounding rocket, it was highly successful as the second stage on Nike, Terrier, Taurus (Honest John), Ute, Paiute and Sandhawk boosters. Several hundred of these configurations were launched.
 
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