This is like peeling an onion.
She constantly refers to "her" aircraft in media interviews while admitting in the Cobham lecture that owner Ewald was up front all along and the chase plane was helping with navigation.
Her journeys have been very much 21st century ones, embracing the GoPro era with copious cameras and photographers, and a chase aircraft bringing luggage and avgas, and also assisting in navigation, and very proactive
PR. Moreover, for most flights on the 2015/6 expedition to Australia she was accompanied by the aircraft's owner, Ewald Gritsch, a 20,000 hour instructor.
Proactive
PR? Is that another way of misleading the media in to thinking she was solo.