The constant references to solo flight could only have come from the Boeing and Artemis publicity teams handouts.
If you read most of the stories they have similarities to suggest they were just edited from press releases.
This from ITV in the UK.
October 2015 at 6:39pm
Pilot says solo adventure is a long awaited dream
Tracey Curtis-Taylor has set off on her 13,000 mile solo flight to Australia from Farnborough, following in the footseps of pioneering aviator Amy Johnson. She said the flight is the culmination of a 30 year old dream and "fulfilling a destiny which was always meant to be."
Pilot says solo adventure is a long awaited dream | Meridian - ITV News
ITV and others must be forgiven as they witnessed the big launch party at Farnborough where TCT departed alone only to hours later meet up with Ewald Gritsch who climbed in to the front seat in France.
In my opinion Boeing saw this as a nice big global
PR exercise during their centenary and hijacked the record breaking trip of the English aviation pioneer for their own publicity. The fact that the Amy Johnson voyage was in a British built aircraft over a decade older than the Stearman was eclipsed by the fact that most people think all biplanes look the same.
There were constant references to "following in the footsteps" or commemorating Amy Johnsons solo flight to imply TCT was doing the same. Boeing themselves issued media handouts claiming it was a solo trip.
The solo claims continued well after the event as the Boeing brand was promoted in key places such as the United Nations in Geneva last April. For those of you who have not seen it before the promo text clearly mentions solo claims for both trip and ironically they chose the famous picture of Ewald trying to hide on arrival in Sydney.
