Title
Who Was Fatty Pearson?
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Profiles the life of pilot Alexander Cuninghame “Fatty” Pearson. Belknap recounts Pearson’s stint as an African bush pilot, his time as a commander of a World War II air squadron, which offered support to wounded soldiers at the front, and his tragic death in 1944. Briefly notes that Hemingway’s experience on one of Pearson’s African flights inspired the climax of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”
Published in
Air & Space Smithsonian
Volume
27
Issue
5
Date
2012
Pages
62-67
COinS
Citation
Belknap, Tim. “Who Was Fatty Pearson?” Air & Space Smithsonian 27, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 2012): 62-7.