title: Thaden T-2
text: # Thaden T-2
  
  The Thaden T-2 was a 1920s American four-seat all-metal cabin monoplane built by the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California, USA.
  
  ## Design and development
  
  The Thaden Metal Aircraft Company was formed by Herbert von Thaden, a former United States Army Signal Corps pilot and engineer, to work on developing the first American all-metal aircraft. Following on from the strut-braced T-1 the T-2 was a smaller four-seat high-wing cantilever monoplane with flaps, powered by a 150 hp (112 kW) Comet radial engine.
  
  ## Specifications
  
  Data from Aero Digest August 1929
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: one
  * Capacity: two or three passengers
  * Length: 24 ft 11 in (7.59 m)
  * Wingspan: 39 ft (12 m)
  * Height: 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m)
  * Wing area: 225 sq ft (20.9 $m^2)$
  * Fuel capacity: 50 US gal (42 imp gal; 190 L)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Comet 7-D 7 cylinder radial engine, 150 hp (110 kW) at 1,800 rpm
  * Propellers: 2-bladed Westinghouse Micarta
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 121 mph (195 km/h, 105 kn)
  * Cruise speed: 100 mph (160 km/h, 87 kn)
  * Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m)
  * Rate of climb: 800 ft/min (4.1 m/s)
  * Landing speed, flaps down: 46 mph (74 km/h)
  