Photograph
Thaden T-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-D Engine
| Right side profile view of the front of a Comet 7-D air-cooled radial piston engine and wooden propeller on a Thaden T-2 aircraft. A design of the Comet Engine Corporation, the engine was manufactured on a Gisholt turret lathe in Madison, Wisconsin; the plane was assembled by Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California, a company formed in the 1920s by Herbert von Thaden who was a former United States Army Signal Corps pilot and engineer. A four-seat cabin airplane and among the first all-metal aircrafts in America, the T-2 was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with flaps, that measured 7.65 m (25 ft 1 in) in length, had a 11.89 m (39 ft 0 in) wingspan, and could fly up to 194 km/h (121 mph) powered by a 7-cylinder Comet engine running at 165 hp and 1900rpm. The plane is parked on an airstrip at the Oakland air field. |
| Image ID: | 132976 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 22 1929 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Oakland |
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| 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 2 |
| 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. |
| Aircraft industry |
| Aircraft supplies industry |
| Factories |
| 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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