Hi Clareprop
you forgot to include how a subsequent cross-USA dual jolly with the same ATPL/aircraft owner was hyped up to be another solo pioneering trip, but failed due to the inability to get a light aircraft airborne from a mile-and-a -half long runway due to an inability to understand the basics of density altitude (and a crash that wrote off the aircraft reported as an 'incident'.)
Unfortunately the relationship between 'news' and 'truth' are always tenuous. Look up the Russian proverb regarding Pravda and Izvestia.