This paragraph is pure spin.
This was a singularly spectacular and successful advertisement for women in aviation, worldwide. Whether young women witnessed the flights directly, or indirectly by following social media or press campaigns, many will have been inspired by this ‘bird in a biplane’. In many of the countries en route and where Tracey and her team stopped-over, refuelled or put-on demonstration flights, a woman driving a car is almost unheard of, let alone flying a plane. Consider the impact that seeing a woman in the cockpit had on many of those young, impressionable women.
No mention of young men being inspired by Ewald.
None of this explains the deliberate attempt to edit him out of all press coverage or accept the solo certificate from the Australian Women Pilots Association.