Little John six-round launcher test information?

[SolarYellow]

@PeterAlway includes a set of color info for the deployed version of the Little John, described as "Six-Round Launcher Test."

I have also come across the following photo, with the file name "js640_andrey_little_john_04.jpg" that appears to be the same color scheme as in Alway's info but with a black NC tip and the XM47 clipped-delta fins that are viable for model rocket flight.

Just wondering if anyone has additional info on the "Six-Round Launcher Test" flights and scale data to accompany. Between Peter's drawing/sketch and this crappy photo, I can come up with something that will look cool, but I'd love to be able to document it better and make it more accurate if possible.

 

[SolarYellow]

As usual, I found some good discussion of the "White Sands test pattern" over at YORF, including very useful resources.

https://forums.rocketshoppe.com/showthread.php?t=9934

 

[PeterAlway]

All I could find in my files were two inkjet printouts of digital photos, and one of those awful color xerox copies. But not the actual digitial photos I printed. One of the photos was printed out with the source webpage, and thanks to the Internet Archive's Wayback machine, I could find the page with the meh-resolution image.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991113193705/www.wsmr.army.mil/paopage/pages/ljohn.htm

 

[SolarYellow]

That's interesting. It would seem that the XM47 round currently on display in the WSMR rocket garden is painted to match the photo above, but without the information that the design was part of a roll pattern that made a view of the rocket from any angle unique. Thus, it was given the same stripe setup on both sides, mirrored 180 degrees. That has propagated through the modeling community due to the ready availability of documentation.

 

[PeterAlway]

This is a photograph of a color xerox of a photo. Not great quality, but, well, it's what I've got:

 

[PeterAlway]

This photograph is a photo of a printout of a scan of a photo that came from some mystery source.

 

[PeterAlway]

The four views for 360-degree coverage are based in part on photos, and in part on wraparound diagrams of Little Joe II roll patterns from vintage sources. I dropped the "six-missile launcher" description from later versions of my drawing. Frankly, I'm not sure where that description came from--perhaps from captions for those photos that I have since lost.

 

[SolarYellow]

Thanks, as always!