TCT and her backers are spouting rubbish.
The doors were wide open in the 30's to the likes of Mary Heath,Amy Johnson,Jean Batten etc .Those women flew solo without "engineers and a support team".
Get real Tracey and if you want to 'emulate' them a good start would be achieving your UK commercial pilots licence on the Tiger Moth. If Amanda Harrison can do it I am sure you can.
We would all respect you if you solo piloted a Tiger Moth to Oz.
It would make a better movie as well.