History Maker International

What an amazing project to be involved in. When the Neon Pictures team announced their involvement with History Maker Damien Ley and the Sir Charles Kingsford Smith project, we were very excited.

The 8th November 2010 saw the 75th anniversary of the disappearance of the Lady Southern Cross, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Tommy Pethybridge. To this day, this remains one of the most amazing stories, with the location of remains of the plane and pilots still unconfirmed.

Damien Ley, the History Maker, believes he has located the plane off the coast of Burma and is in the process of proving this. As part of this journey, Damien and his team have been building an exact replica of the Lady Southern Cross. This replica was unveiled live on Channel 7′s Sunrise morning show on the anniversary of the disappearance.

There is also a flying replica being built, named ‘History Maker- Lady Southern Cross’- this will be flown by the son of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith next year, completing the journey his father embarked on.

Neon Solutions were asked to create the commemorative logo to launch this project and then design and build the website. Working closely with Damien, the team at Solutions built a website that will continue to grow over the course of the next year. With photos, information and a shopping cart to purchase commemorative items, this website will become an amazing resource for anyone searching for accurate information on this topic.

The social media side of things is taking shape, building an audience to talk to and to gather stories of Kingsford Smith and Pethybridge that relatives or keen aviating Australians may know.

A fascinating topic and one that Neon Solutions are proud to be supporting.