CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN TRAMPOLINE MANUFACTURING

In the late 1940s, Melbourne steel fabricator Lionel Duffin travelled to the USA for a holiday. During a visit to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (today known as NASA) in Langley, Virginia, Lionel was inspired by images of pilots training for weightlessness on a canvas stretched over a raised frame, with elastic rope to enable movement of the canvas.

Lionel returned to his manufacturing works in Carnegie, Victoria, where he built trailers for ski boats and ramps and jumps for the famous Moomba Carnival. In 1947 he was still inspired by what