There is another interesting element to that Telegraph story air police and that is the lies from Boeing in this press release.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov. 4, 2013 – With support from Boeing [NYSE: BA], pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor has taken off on a 7,000-mile (11,000-kilometer) solo journey, in a reconditioned Boeing Stearman open-cockpit biplane, to retrace Lady Mary Heath’s historic 1928 flight between South Africa and the United Kingdom.
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/Boeing-S...Biplane#Closed
The word SOLO was never retracted until this thread and the Daily Mail forced her to release the following statement.
In planning the expedition through Africa in 2013 there was an initial hope of a solo flight in the beautiful & original 1942 Boeing Stearman.
However, in the early stages of the flight this concept was intentionally and officially dropped...
Even then she claimed it was an original Stearman while Boeing said reconditioned.
The Boeing press release was then used by the Daily Telegraph.
After eight weeks and 9,825 miles, Curtis-Taylor, 51, British-born but raised in Canada, has completed her epic adventure: a re-creation of Lady Heath’s 1928 record-breaking flight from Cape Town to Cairo. The route took her through Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt – before finally touching down at Goodwood in West Sussex.
Two people on board landing at Goodwood at the finale despite Boeing claiming it was a solo expedition!
Which of course then misled the LAA in to thinking she had done it all alone.
Lady Mary Heath arriving in Croydon in 1928. Observe only room for one pilot.
