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The seating arrangements on a twin-engine AT-7 might not be quite the way The Bee's diagram depicted them in Wednesday's editions, says a former navigator who trained in AT-7s.
Retired Lt. Col. Donald Satterthwait, 85, a Clovis resident who navigated combat missions in World War II, said the three training navigators had small desks lined up behind the co-pilot's seat. The desks were used to spread out maps and instruments.
The Bee's diagram just showed four seats -- two up front and two behind. We got our background on the Beechcraft AT-7 from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Ariz.
Satterthwait said he trained in Texas. It's possible there were small differences between Texas- and California-based AT-7s.
