The Ishikawajima T-2 was a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft designed to meet the requirements of an Army competition between wood- and metal framed contestants.
The wings were braced together with N-form struts between the spars and held over the fuselage with outward-leaning N-struts and a forward inverted V-strut.
The T-2s were flown from an open cockpit behind the upper wing trailing edge, which had a rectangular cut-out to improve upward vision.
The landing gear was of the fixed, single axle type and had short, faired legs with rearward drag struts.
Competitive testing convinced the Army that more expensive metal-framed airframes were more durable than wooden ones when aileron failure in one of the T-2s spread further into the structure.