Reaching for the sky
FOR RYAN CAMPBELL, every up and down in life is an opportunity, every bump in the road a chance to change direction and evolve for the better. It’s hard, in fact, not to think of every corny aphorism you’ve ever heard when you talk with him. ‘You get knocked down, you get up again.’ ‘Every cloud has a silver lining.’
“I’m a very ‘glass half-full’ kind of person, always have been,” he agrees with a laugh, adding his cliché of choice to the list. “You won’t get me to tell you all the negative stuff – I’m not that person.”
That’s not to say he hasn’t had some “very low moments” since his body was shattered when the Tiger Moth he was piloting crashed, due to engine failure, on the Gold Coast just after Christmas 2015.
“At 100 foot, the engine stopped and three seconds later it was all over,” Ryan recalls. “How it
