"Flyingmac" if you want to read the best biography on Jean Batten then try this "Jean Batten the Garbo of the Skies" by Ian Makersey.Behind all the Jean Battens of the world are men that paid for them.There are plenty off capable and successful women in all fields of activity that don't ride on the coat tales of so called feminism,they just do it.TCT is certainly not one of them.