James Walker: HTC-trained Commercial Hovercraft Pilot

Hovercraft are not just for recreation – hovercraft also mean business. Just ask James Walker, an amphibious vehicles operator for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., of Oak Brook, Illinois. GLDD is the largest provider of dredging services in the U.S. and one of the growing number of companies in the world who provide critical services with commercial hovercraft. After James (center) and his crew learned to fly and maintain the GLDD hovercraft...

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Meet an HTC-trained Military Hovercraft Pilot

Capt. Cory Lingelbach, a U.S. Air Force firefighter, is a military hovercraft pilot and chief flight instructor for the Utah Test and Training Range at Hill Air Force Base. Did he learn his hovercraft skills from the military? No – he learned them at Hovercraft Training Centers. Capt. Lingelbach (left) and his crew completed a week of specialized military hovercraft pilot training at HTC. And those skills have certainly paid off....

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Is a Hovercraft Right for You? Find Out at HTC!

As Ben Stein says, “The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”  If you’ve been toying with the idea of owning a hovercraft or starting a hovercraft business, a Hovercraft Training Centers test flight or training course is the place to start.  That was the first step for Rusty Roush, a lifelong CPA and investment advisor from Amarillo, Texas: “I’m trying to see if it’s something that’s fun...

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HudsonMOD: “Score! The Future has arrived with the Hovercraft Golf Cart!"

People just can’t get enough of Bubba’s Hover and the role HTC and Neoteric Hovercraft played in this global phenomenon! The tsunami of publicity still continues. The luxury lifestyle magazine HudsonMOD lets readers in the New York City metropolitan area experience the best the world has to offer, reflected in the magazine’s tagline, “Life well lived.” Deciding that the Neoteric HoverGolf™ Cart, supported by training at HTC, fits into the...

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Hovercraft Golf Cart Training

By now you probably know that Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield, Ohio is the first golf course in the world to feature Neoteric HoverGolf™ Carts - the official replicas of Bubba’s Hover. What you may not know is Windy Knoll personnel were trained at HTC! Windy Knoll General Manager Dave Duffey and Golf Course Superintendent Gary Price traveled to HTC headquarters to undergo pilot and maintenance training before their hovering golf carts...

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Pete Garland: "It's all about excitement, adventure!"

Pete Garland of Coldspring, Texas, is a retired oil company engineer who enrolled in a Hovercraft Training Centers course for the same reason he went into the oil business: “It’s interesting – and I look for excitement, adventure.” Pete Garland (left) receives his hovercraft pilot certification from HTC President Chris Fitzgerald. But to Pete, retirement is definitely not the world’s longest coffee break. He has jet skis, four wheelers, a couple...

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Walt Sitz, Eagle Wings, Inc. – A Man on a Mission

Walt Sitz is a man on a mission – and he’s making a hovercraft part of that mission.  He signed up for training at HTC before his hovercraft purchase. “Training should be the first step in any vehicle. You don’t just jump in a plane and say ‘I think I can figure it out.’ If you can’t, the alternatives are not good!” His wife Pat, who listened to Walt's entire flight training via wireless headsets, adds, “It’s like flying an airplane; you...

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Rescue Hovercraft Training: Prairieton Fire Department

David Phelps and Ben Cottrell of the Prairieton, Indiana Fire Department have joined first responders throughout the world who rely on hovercraft for rescue operations. After purchasing a Neoteric rescue hovercraft from the Vigo County Emergency Management Agency, their first order of business was to sign up for training at HTC. David and Ben had taken the craft on a couple of trial runs before their training course. David, a 50-year veteran...

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From Gyrocopters to Hovercraft: Paul Biggerstaff

Paul Biggerstaff of Woosung, Illinois is a "get it done" kinda guy: "I'm the driven type of individual that gets it done - and I get bored easily."  A skydiver and gyrocopter pilot, he chose hovercraft as his next adventure. In his see-it-through manner, Paul quickly honed in on a unique Neoteric Hovertrek™ with a hand-painted camouflage color scheme: A week later, Paul brought his craft to Hovercraft Training Centers...

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