Quote from Allan Lupton:
"This thread seems to be less and less about History and/or Nostalgia as reality has been acknowledged.
For most of the past year it has mainly been claim/counter-claim about the "solo" aspect so perhaps it should be locked or moved (or both!)."
Ironic that someone should be questioning the legitimacy of a thread about a feat the authenticity of which it is currently discussing.
This was indeed a private flight in that the aircraft was presumably not operating with a public-transport C of A but, in view of the considerable revenue that the operation must be earning by virtue of the documentary filming, and the wages paid to the support team, it could hardly claim to be an amateur operation.
The nominated pilot claims to be emulating at least two historic flights: the
raisons d'être of her journeys. Historic flights are meat and drink to regulars of AH&N.
It can be tiresome, admittedly, having parallel threads on different parts of PPRuNe but, looking at the
merged threads on the Private Flying forum, I notice that the first post is dated April 2016. So this thread on AH&N predates it by a year or so.