VIDEO: Bubba Watson has nothing on Gary Meyers!

Bubba’s hovercraft golf cart made a major splash with the Bubba’s Hover viral video. Let's make this one go viral, too!   Watch HTC grad Gary Meyers turn the Refuge Golf & Country Club’s Wine Festival in Lake Havasu City, Arizona into an extraordinary event. (By the way, "Neo" is his hovercraft's name.) Just goes to show you that with proper training and any Neoteric HoverTrek you, too, can hover like Bubba …  Hover like Bubba and Gary – Take a Test Flight! … ...

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Dan Brown: “If you don’t train, you’re taking your life into your own hands.”

Dan Brown, an optometrist from Olney, IL, had owned a Hovertechnics hovercraft for 15 years – but he rarely used it. “I had no training; I just read the manual and I wasn’t that confident in it. I probably flew it only 5 hours or so over the years.” The craft’s previous owner was also untrained. “He had a bad experience with it,” explains Dan. “With no training, he just jumped in the darn thing and took off. He was out duck hunting and got thrown...

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Want a hovercraft? Paul Thrift knows how to “figure it all out.”

Paul Thrift, a busy 34-year-old real estate developer, takes his recreation very seriously. As President of Thompson Thrift Development in Terre Haute, IN, he describes himself as “fairly judicious in going about due diligence, perseverant – I stick with something until I figure it out – and I’m curious and like to try new things.” So, when he started thinking about a hovercraft as a family recreational vehicle, he didn’t just call and place...

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A wise business move for Wilderness Place Lodge: an HTC Test Flight

Buying a hovercraft can be a smart business move. But a wise businessman doesn’t make impulsive decisions. Instead, he gathers information, researches options and conducts a thorough analysis before he commits to a capital outlay. Cory Wendt of Madison, Wisconsin exemplifies that wisdom – and that’s what brought him to Hovercraft Training Centers. While in college, Cory and his friend Jason Rockvam of Clancy, Montana, worked as guides at a...

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U.S. Navy LCAC Craftmasters Evaluate Training at Hovercraft Training Centers

HTC trains not only rescue, commercial and recreational hovercraft pilots, but military pilots as well – and this is a segment of our business that may expand. HTC is exploring the possibility of the U.S. Navy using light hovercraft for initial pilot training for LCACs (Landing Craft Air Cushion) and the new generation of SSCs (Ship-to-Shore Connectors.) Currently, LCAC Craftmasters are trained using simulators, following by final training in...

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HTC Grad Demonstrates Rescue Hovercraft to Poland Fire Rescue

After completing hovercraft pilot training at HTC, Michal Przybylski launched his own company, Tecnotek Polska, to become a Neoteric Hovercraft dealer in Poland. Tecnotek Polska is actively engaged in demonstrating the hovercraft’s value in rescue operations to fire departments and other rescue agencies throughout Poland – and their response has been extremely positive. Here, Michal exhibits the HoverTrek’s capabilities to Fire Rescue agencies...

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"There's more to flying than just jumping in the cockpit!"

Bill Hopkins is a retired tool and die maker from Kansas who knows a thing or two about flying. He’s been into hang gliders, flown helicopters - and even built and piloted his own airplane. “If it’s flyable, I like to fly it,” he says. But when he started building his second aircraft, he was hit with a stroke of bad luck. “I found out that because I have asthma, I can’t renew my pilot’s license. And my wife told me she’d just as soon I stay...

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