Freddy
Osler, Gabi Osler and Basil Schulz, 'The Flying Oslers', Billy Smart's, Fairfield
Hall, Croydon, 1971.
The Flying Oslers are a trapeze act from South Africa. Freddy Osler was originally
named Freddy Weppenaar and now runs an aquatic theme park in Australia. The
French acrobat J Leotard (1838-70) invented the flying trapeze as a form of
public entertainment and gave his name to the leotard, the costume that male
and female aerial gymnasts alike still wear today.
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