her own website front page billed it as "following in the slipstream of aviator Amy Johnson to recreate her pioneering solo flight from Great Britain to Australia"
https://web.archive.org/web/20160109...nabiplane.com/
The detail page does go on to state:
"Tracey was supported by a second aircraft; a Cessna Caravan provided by Phoenix Aviation of Nairobi,which carried a logistics manager, an engineer and a four-man film crew."
but doesn't mention anyone else in her plane.
or how about her own website again:
"In preparation for her solo flight across Africa,"
Tracey Curtis Taylor - Aviatrix, Adventurer, Inspirational Speaker
was that one a real solo, or a "re-creation" without the pesky solo part?
or
"The Cape Town to Goodwood flight took two months to complete with 38 stops. Tracey was supported by a second aircraft; a Cessna Caravan provided by Phoenix Aviation of Nairobi, which carried a logistics manager, an engineer and a four-man film crew.
In preparation for her solo flight across Africa, Tracey was invited to join a 3 man Russian crew ferry flying an old piston engined Antonov 2 biplane from Kiev to Cape Town"
https://web.archive.org/web/20150204...om/operations/
Personally I have no idea how the media got the impression that these would be solo flights..