Photograph
Thaden T-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-D Engine
| Three-quarter view from front left of a Thaden T-2 parked outdoors. Manufactured by the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California. The company was formed in the 1920s by Herbert von Thaden, a former United States Army Signal Corps pilot and engineer whose line of aircraft was among the first all-metal aircrafts in America. A four-seat all-metal cabin airplane, the T-2 was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with flaps. It measured 7.65 m (25 ft 1 in) in length and 11.89 m (39 ft 0 in) in wingspan and was powered by a 7-D Comet air-cooled radial-piston engine that was designed by the Comet Engine Corporation. The plane, with registration number 7074, is parked on a landing strip at the Oakland air field in front of a chain-link fence. Several men can be seen beyond the fence, and in the distance is a city and the northern California foothills. Decal text on the nose and tail reads: "Thaden San Francisco." |
| Image ID: | 132975 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 22 1929 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Oakland |
| County: | |
| State: | California |
| Collection Name: | Gisholt Machine Company negatives and photographs, circa 1900-circa 1960 (bulk circa 1910-circa 1930) |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | PH 7114 Box 2, Sleeve 1 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| This image is one of forty-nine photographs in this Gisholt Machine Company collection documenting the Comet Engine Corporation. Gisholt Machine Company purchased the the Comet factory in Oakland, California and moved it to Madison, Wisconsin in 1929. |
| Cities and towns |
| Aircraft industry |
| Aircraft supplies industry |
| Hills |
| Fences |
| Factories |
| United States. Army |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Signs and symbols |
| Airplane engines |
| Airplanes |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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