Flight of his life

Volume 48, No. 5, April 6, 2006

The smile says it all: Five-year-old Shannon Lawler enjoys a flight over the Point Cook area.

Photo by LT Cameron Jamieson

A YOUNG boy suffering terminal cancer had his head in the clouds recently with a dream come true.

Five-year-old Shannon Lawler, who suffers from a form of skin cancer, was the VIP guest of the RAAF Museum at RAAF Base Williams, Point Cook.

“We gave him a show bag and took him all round the museum,” Museum Director David Gardner said.

“He was fantastic; he is a real Air Force nut.”

The highlight for the young man was a tour of the museum’s C-130A aircraft and he also got to sit in the cockpit of a Winjeel training aircraft.

“We were going to give him a taxi ride down the taxiway, but he was a bit nervous,” Mr Gardner said.

Later, Shannon got a chance to fly in an ADF helicopter assigned to the Commonwealth Games.

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