One of Ewald’s assertions is absolutely undeniable. TCT made her dreams come true. She dreamed of celebrity and public acclaim. She came up with the idea of achieving solo flights across Africa and to Australia as previous female pilots had done. The only small hitch was that she did not feel sufficiently confident to do those flights without someone more experienced with her. But that was just a small detail. Now that the flights have been achieved the argument from her and her supporters is “why quibble about this small detail when the flights were such a triumph of planning, navigation and logistics?” The answer is that it is that small detail upon which the entire edifice was built. It cannot now be waived away as if it were irrelevant, as much as TCT, Ewald and co might wish it could.