At Hovercraft Training Centers, we provide far more than standard
hovercraft flight training. For instance, our Master Hovercraft Pilot &
Maintenance Training course teaches those who use hovercraft professionally to
train others and to independently maintain and repair their hovercraft. This
minimizes travel expenses for our customers and for our personnel, as well.
A good example is the recent hovercraft flight training that took place
in China. Yellow River Tourist Attractions in LuLiang City, Shanxi Province, already
owns one 4-passenger Model 3877 Neoteric hovercraft and, due to its popularity,
the company has increased their fleet with two additional 6-passenger Model
5854 Neoteric craft.
Neoteric’s agent, Mr. Huang Xiaogang, President of China Hai Pai
Hovercraft, Ltd. – the leading hovercraft company in China – sent two of his
engineers to conduct the training.
First, the Hai Pai engineers (in
red) conduct ground instruction for Yellow River Tourist Attractions’
additional pilots, which includes the basics of hovercraft function, operation
and maintenance …
Next,
flight training begins. Hai Pai Engineer Mr. Lu Chun Zhong (in red) familiarizes the pilot trainees with the operational
features of the Neoteric hovercraft. Here, he explains that its patented
reverse thrust buckets make the Neoteric Hovertrek™ the only hovercraft on the
market than can brake, fly backward and hover in place …
The Yellow
River, where training took place and where all three hovercraft will be operated
for tourism, is the second-longest river in China and the fifth-longest in the
world. It’s famous for being the “mother river” of China and the cradle of
Chinese civilization (2100-1046 BC).
It takes
its name from its muddy yellow water coming from the sediments it carries.
Because of its heavy silting, ordinary boats can’t be used on the Yellow River.
And in the last five years, it has flooded more than 1,600 times. Since
Neoteric hovercraft are used globally as flood rescue vehicles, these three
tourism hovercraft could serve a double purpose!
Unlike other
vehicles, the Neoteric hovercraft flies easily across water and mud during
flight training …
At the end
of the day, Yellow River Tourist Attractions’ newly-trained additional
hovercraft pilots proudly display their flight training certifications …
LuLiang
City, with a population of more than 3.7 million, is located in the LuLiang
Mountains. It has four distinct seasons, but is a tourist destination all year.
Now its visitors, from China and from elsewhere in the world, will have an
increased opportunity to see the many attractions along the Yellow River in
areas that no vehicle other than a hovercraft can reach.
But the Neoteric hovercraft as a Chinese
tourist attraction doesn’t stop there …
Recently,
Neoteric’s China Hai Pai Hovercraft arranged a HoverTrek™presentation in YiWu, China for Mr. Gu ChaoXi, Vice-Minister of Civil
Affairs, and Major General WenPing Feng, a Commander in the Chinese
People's Liberation Army.
The
presentation took place while the YiWu Emergency Rescue Team used their
Neoteric Model 3626 65hp 4-passenger hovercraft to conduct flight training for
additional pilots.
After the
flight training, the Team’s Neoteric craft appeared at the famous annual Jujube
(Red Date) Festival in Qikou Ancient City, near LuLiang. The festival celebrates
the jujube fruit, also known as red dates or Chinese dates – which have been
cultivated in China for more than 4,000 years - and includes a wide assortment
of cultural entertainment such as folk operas and dance performances …
And
this year, one of the festival's popular features was a Neoteric hovercraft ...
For more than two centuries, Qikou, a unique terraced city carved into a
steep hillside on the banks of the Yellow River, served as a vital trade hub.
Goods coming by river had to be off-loaded in Qikou because the water was too
shallow for boats to pass, then everything was loaded onto camel trains. But
following the introduction of rail transport in the 1930s, the town fell into
economic decline.
On a positive note, the decline helped preserve Qikou’s
ancient structures from being redeveloped into new buildings … and now new life
has been injected into the city by the rapidly growing tourism industry.
It’s official: Hovercraft + Training + Tourism = success in China!
