Well spotted Satco.
I can have a lot of fun with that in court
This whole saga centres on well publicised solo flights that never were solo.
Had it been public from day one that this was just another reality programme in the making no one would have cared a hoot and there would have been little or no publicity.
We certainly would not be wasting our time on here.
TCT claimed to be emulating two pioneering women aviators from the early days of long distance flying.
Both flew alone and unsupported in British built aircraft.
TCT has had massive funding and support and is now backtracking on her claims that her flying was event was meant to be solo.
She also implied it was difficult to find a similar aircraft of the period to fly in Africa despite many examples of the DH Tiger Moth still flying there.
Of course DH are not still around to provide sponsorship but Boeing are and their centenary was coming up. Could that have influenced the choice of aircraft?
An aircraft from WW2 and far removed from the small DH?
I am not some individual with a private grudge. I had never heard of TCT until I read about her on this site late last year after she left the UK.
I have no interest in her apart from revealing the truth.
I am not, as described in her press release ,an "associate" of Sam Rutherford.
I have never spoken by phone to Sam Rutherford or met him.
As I stated earlier I am a retired journalist hence my digging out the facts.
And the facts of this story revolve around one simple word that means so much to all of us who faced it.
Solo.