The comments mentioned ask the same questions we all want answers to.
Miss Taylor-Curtis' website has been amended several times since the truth of these flights came to light swith the claims to have flown solo being removed. However anything posted on the internet can be found if you know how to look. On 4th February 2015 her website stated "Her solo open-cockpit biplane flight from Cape Town to Goodwood...". The 'solo' claim was made many, many times in the press and other media as well as during public appearances such as here:
She was convincing all the worlds media that it was a solo voyage up until the truth started to appear on Pprune
ITV News in the UK ran this report on January 7th this year.
ITV REPORT 7 January 2016 at 5:36pm
British pilot Tracey Curtis Taylor days away from completing 13,000 mile solo flight
British adventurer Tracey Curtis-Taylor is only days away from completing an epic voyage from the UK to Australia in a vintage biplane.
ITV News presenter Mark Austin reports:
She is attempting to recreate legendary pilot Amy Johnson's pioneering 13,000 mile solo flight across the globe from England and is expected to land in Sydney over the weekend, after making landfall Down Under on earlier this week.
Speaking to ITV News, Curtis-Taylor said that she is flying twice as far each leg across Australia to make up time lost due to bad weather but she is "relieved beyond words" to finally be Down Under.
Flying for up to eight hours a day on her final leg, she said she was having to stop to regularly refuel - relying on help from aboriginal villages.
She has made more than 50 refuelling stops along the way - travelling through Vienna, Istanbul, Riyadh, Dubai, Yangon, Kuala Lumpur, and Bali before the final strech in Australia.
Her plan is fly along the famous coastline from Richmond Royal Australian Air Force base, past the Sydney Opera House and the bridge before making her final landing at Sydney International Airport.
"Then there'll be a big party - I'm going to need a very large drink at the end of this, I can tell you," she added.
But she won't be resting for long, she said - she will be heading to New Zealand to visit family before returning to London, before shipping the plane off to Seattle in preparation for another solo flight across America next year.
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-07/b...e-solo-flight/
Dare we assume Mark Austin got his facts wrong? Or was he perhaps suffering the after effects of a liquid lunch at the Calthorpe Arms just paces away from ITV News HQ in Grays Inn Rd.
It is more likely her well oiled
PR machine fed ITV the 'facts' to write the story?
There is video in his report which clearly shows two people in the Spirit Of Artemis.
Sadly Mark and the production journalist editing the package failed to notice what was on the screen.
As we all know by now Tracey loves to embelish the truth.
So she had to throw this fib in to that story.
she said she was having to stop to regularly refuel - relying on help from aboriginal villages.
This all reminds me of the 1963 John Schlesinger movie Billy Liar.