Let Bubba’s Hover star at your next event!

Remember how the viral video of Bubba Watson’s BWI - Bubba’s Hover - took the world by storm? Just imagine how the appearance of that phenomenal hovercraft golf cart at your next event could boost attendance and publicity!

No, you don’t have to buy one to make that happen. Neoteric Hovercraft, who created Bubba's BWI and manufactured the limited edition series of official Bubba’s Hover replicas, has just announced that their hovercraft golf carts – complete with a professional HTC-trained pilot – are now available for you to rent!

Everyone knows that Bubba’s Hover draws major attention wherever it appears. It’s the ideal attraction to explode media coverage and attendance, not just at golf tournaments but at any type of function: fundraisers, corporate events, grand openings, trade shows, private celebrations – any event imaginable! How about a hover-wedding? 

If you’re involved in the planning or hosting of an upcoming event, there’s no better way to put the “special” in that event than to give your guests exciting rides on a hovercraft. And it doesn’t have to be a golf course event – the Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart will fly anywhere, even over ice, snow or mud. 

Be sure to pass this on! Even if you’ve simply been invited to attend an upcoming event, let the event planners or venue owners know about this exciting opportunity!

See how easy it is to rent a Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart …

Call 1-812-234-1120

or email hovermail@neoterichovercraft.com

Make this happen at your upcoming event ...

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“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Bubba Claus!”

There’s a reason Hovercraft Training Centers trains exclusively on Neoteric hovercraft – the Neoteric HoverTrek™ is undisputedly the most innovative, effective and interesting hovercraft on the market. That’s why Bubba Watson chose Neoteric to manufacture his BW1 hovercraft golf cart – and chose HTC to teach him to fly it.

Following on the heels of Bubba’s Hover, his world-famous viral video, Bubba is now ‘rapping’ his Christmas gift. He just released a new rap video, “Bubba Claus – The Single” – and after just a couple of days, it already has more than half a million views on YouTube.

The media worldwide are all over it – but the reviews are a bit mixed. For instance, UK’s Daily Mail reported, “Every rapper should have a cool set of wheels – and Watson’s golf buggy certainly oozes class.” The Washington Post said, “Bubba Watson knows the best way to offer a Christmas gift – he breaks out his hovercraft, making sure to remind everyone that he owns the awesome vehicle.” But Golf Channel wrote, “Bubba Claus brings joy to your heart, pain to your ears.”

We’re not qualified to judge Bubba’s talent as a musician – we only taught him to fly his hovercraft golf cart. Take a look at his video and leave a comment to tell us what you think – about Bubba the rapper and Bubba’s hovercraft …

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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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Let Cupid take flight in a whole new way!

A card, chocolates, dinner … sure, that’s fine. But here’s a way to make this Valentine’s Day the sweetest one ever. Treat your significant other to a Neoteric hovercraft joyride at HTC headquarters in Terre Haute, Indiana!

Learn a bit more about Neoteric Hovercraft from Wealth TV’s Boys Toys, hosted by Emmy-nominated Jenn Barlow …

Are you ready to give the most unique gift possible? Just click the link below to sign up and we’ll contact you within 48 hours to schedule the flight for the date of your choice. Then we’ll email you a gift certificate to enclose in that Valentine’s Day card.

There’s no better way to hover into your lover’s heart than the gift of a flight on a Neoteric Hovercraft – the makers of Bubba’s Hover, Bubba Watson’s BWI hovercraft golf cart!

Let Cupid take flight – sign up now!

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HTC grad Alberto Torruella: “I think training should be required.”

Alberto Torruella is a man who knows his business. The 80-year-old attorney comes from a background of sugar cane farming in Puerto Rico. Then things got interesting: “Initially our business was sugar, but my great-grandfather started producing rum. After Prohibition, we set up a distillery and went into the rum business, which was kind of a secondary business at the time.” Alberto’s “secondary business” is now the Serralles Distillery, makers of Don Q Rum. It’s not only the largest rum producer in Puerto Rico, but the second largest producer of quality rums in the United States. Then a decade ago he went into the hotel business as well, and when he bought his first hotel, he added a golf course.

Alberto lives on a beach in Puerto Rico and when he retired last year, he discovered the hovercraft golf cart via the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog. “I figured this was something to keep me busy,” he says. But business is never far from his mind, so he realized he could also benefit from the Bubba’s Hover phenomenon: “And I thought it would help the golf course. Puerto Rico has 12 or 13 golf courses – lots of competition for attracting golfers – so we can offer rides.”

Like all good businessmen, Alberto decided to test the viability of his plan – so his first step was to undergo pilot and maintenance training at HTC last November before he bought his Neoteric HoverGolf™ Cart…

Alberto Torruella (left) receives his pilot certification from HTC Senior Instructor Chris Fitzgerald.

“I decided to take training to see how it works out, whether I can handle it.” he said. “Obviously I know it takes practice; you don’t do it overnight. You don’t do anything like that. It’s not just knowing you have to press X button; it’s doing it, and doing it with instruction.”

Alberto is a pilot and has operated boats and motorcycles since he was a child. But after completing his training course at HTC he said, “This is different. I used to drive motorcycles so I’m used to speed and some crazy things – but not this crazy! I mean, you’re going 30 mph and all of a sudden you can spin and go backwards!”

Then he added, “There are some things you’re never going to do by yourself until you see it done by someone else and learn what works. You have to know what can be done and practice it. I think training should be required.”

Considering a hovercraft for business or pleasure?

Test the viability of your plan with a Test Flight or Training Course.

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HTC and Neoteric are Great Asset at Exclusive Business Event

It’s been dubbed the “the ultimate adventure in capitalism.” But judging by the photos so far, the Noble Financial Capital Markets 10^th Annual Equity Conference (“Noble 10”) may very well go down in history as the “ultimate adventure in hovercrafting!”

HTC instructor Steve Stafford was invited to give Neoteric hovercraft and HoverGolf Cart rides to Wall Street executives, investors, world business leaders and their families at this exclusive private event in Port St. Lucie, Florida at Club Med. But the excitement started even before he arrived – the two craft stopped traffic and attracted photographers all across the country as they traveled from Indiana to Florida! And then at Club Med, the interest really peaked ...

You'd think there was nothing else on a beach for kids to do!

Oh, yeah! There's nothing better than a hovercraft ride!

From being an event highlight, to increasing charitable donations, to boosting military recruiting – nothing does it better than a hovercraft!

Check back soon for more photos!

Read more about the Noble 10 event here …

Noble Financial Capital Markets is a research-driven boutique investment bank focused on
emerging growth companies in the energy, healthcare, technology and media
& entertainment sectors.

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HTC Instructor & HoverGolf Cart Join Wall Street Execs at Club Med

Did you think Bubba’s Hover was just a passing fad? If so, think again! Since the world discovered that Neoteric’s Hovercraft Golf Cart is an attention-getter, it has definitely been going places - events throughout the world are featuring it as a major attraction.

This weekend, HTC’s Flight Instructor Steve Stafford will join Wall Street executives, investors, and world business leaders at Club Med in Port St. Lucie, Florida for “the ultimate adventure in capitalism”: the Noble Financial Capital Markets 10^th Annual Equity Conference. While Cadillac provides general transportation at this famed event (last year it was Porsche), Steve will really have them flying high with rides in the HoverGolf Cart.

The 550 attendees will enjoy every luxury and leisure activity imaginable – from sailing, paddle boarding and flying trapeze lessons, to tennis with world-famous coach Gabriel Jaramillo and golf with the Club Med Academy and its renowned teaching pros. And, of course, gliding over the greens and hazards with an HTC pro in the most famous golf cart in the world!

In every way, this annual event is business at its best. As Mark Pinvidic, Noble’s managing partner and chief organizer of Noble 10 says, “We’re sure this one is going to score a perfect ten!”

No doubt about it, with HTC and the Neoteric HoverGolf Cart on board!

Check back next week to see event photos!

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Watch tomorrow! HTC hovercraft on Discovery Channel/Velocity TV Tech Toys 360!

This will show you why HTC trains on Neoteric hovercraft! Discovery Channel/Velocity TV’s Tech Toys 360 travels the world to find the most innovative vehicles and let you meet the people behind them. So of course they found the Neoteric Hovercraft and Bubba’s Hover!  

Tune in tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 11 at 8:30 p.m. (7:30c), to meet Neoteric President Chris Fitzgerald (HTC’s Senior Instructor) and take a tour through the Neoteric factory on the latest Tech Toys 360 episode, Above and Beyond! Here’s a preview …

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Job opening at Neoteric Hovercraft: Purchasing Agent

Here’s your chance to work for the world’s original light hovercraft manufacturer, with customers in more than 50 nations – and join the team who created the world-famous BW1 Hovercraft Golf Cart for Bubba Watson. HTC trains exclusively on Neoteric hovercraft.

Neoteric is currently seeking a Purchasing Agent for its Terre Haute, Indiana headquarters. This is a career opportunity with significant growth potential and Neoteric offers a competitive salary along with health, vision and dental insurance.

If you meet the requirements below and would like to offer your skills to the Neoteric team, email your cover letter, resume and references to hovermail@neoterichovercraft.com.

High power, low weight aircraft engines, stored in the Neoteric engine bay, await installation.
The purchasing agent will be responsible for ordering all hovercraft components.

Primary responsibilities include:

·         Prepare purchase orders; verify specifications/prices; obtain recommendations from suppliers for substitutions; obtain approval from requisitioning department

·         Forward orders to suppliers; monitor and expedite orders

·         Monitor and analyze pricing for cost control

·         Verify receipt of orders; resolve errors in shipments

·         Process returns and outgoing shipments

·         Manage relations and communications with a large number of vendors

·         Manage inventory

·         Manage filing system

·         Collect, record and document parts information

Desired qualifications:

·         Experience in purchasing

·         Lean manufacturing experience

·         Inventory management experience

·         Computer skills

·         Arithmetic skills

·         Able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously

·         Communication skills

·         Strong negotiation skills

·         Motivated self-starter

·         Neat and orderly

Learn more about Neoteric Hovercraft …

and check back for more job openings to be posted this week.

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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 'world's best' category, HudsonMOD featured it in this month’s issue …

HudsonMOD

September 2013

THE WOW – You know you want it

Neoteric HoverGolf™ Cart

A video that could have been taken on any golf course shows your run-of-the-mill golf cart winding down a paved pathway. But suddenly, a larger cart flashes across the screen. Never mind that the driver of this floating golf cart is none other than 2012 Masters champion Bubba Watson, who deadpans with a nonchalant stare back at a gawking golfer. The golfer looks like he’s seen something he can’t very well explain. Yes, that’s a hovercraft on the links. Welcome to the future.

What started as a clever marketing stunt earlier this year by Thinkmodo to drive interest to Bubba Watson’s promotional deal with Oakley has had another, truly astonishing, effect. Since being uploaded to YouTube, the video “Bubba’s Hover” has gone viral, receiving more than eight million views thus far and garnering worldwide media attention for Neoteric, the manufacturers of rescue, military and commercial hovercrafts - and now the first hovercraft golf cart on the planet, the BW1. 

“Since the viral video hit YouTube, we’ve been deluged with inquiries from all over the world,” says Filip Przybysz, an executive at Neoteric. The prototype bearing Watson’s initials has given rise to 100 limited-edition HoverGolf carts that are custom manufactured at the close of each sale. “At this point, we have shipped the first order and are in the process of shipping the second to customers in the US,” he says.

One of the recipients of the accommodating four-passenger, two-golf-bag, 65-horsepower vehicle is the Windy Knoll Golf Club, in Springfield, OH, which recently became the first golf course in the US to purchase two $58,000 hovercrafts with lift-up roofs and the latest noise-reducing fan technology. But why wait for your local golf course to follow suit with futuristic rides? You could be piloting a cushion of air across water hazards in no time with your very own personal hovercraft.

Finally, a reason to smile about spraying a shot: You get to drive in a BW1 to find the ball. The future has arrived. Score!

Learn more at hovercrafttraining.com and facebook.com/HovercraftTraining

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As the article says, “Why wait for your local golf course to offer futuristic rides?” The future here at HTC, where you can easily sign up for a Hovercraft Test Flight or Training Course right now!

Then, enjoy a few photos of the Neoteric HoverGolf™ Cart in action at the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey and the Heritage Club and Four Bridges Country Club in Ohio …

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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 of boats and four ATVs – and grandchildren to enjoy his vehicles with him. He explains why he signed up for training before buying a hovercraft: “The reason I thought about a hovercraft is it looks like it could be a new adventure, a lot of fun. But I don’t think you can just toss your keys to the grandkids and say, ‘Here, give it a go’ like you can with jet skis. You’ve got to know what you’re doing. And I’m not sure how you repair these things, so today I’ll learn.”

And he did. After a morning of classroom and maintenance training, Pete learned how to conduct a preflight inspection before his first flight training session …

Pete first learned about hovercraft from his son-in-law, an avid golfer who got really excited when he saw the Bubba’s Hover viral video of the hovercraft golf cart Neoteric created for Bubba Watson. “He’s just as excited about me coming here for training,” Pete says. “He wants me to buy him a hovercraft, too!”

Before his flight session began, Pete anticipated that flying a hovercraft would be different than operating other watercraft: “Directly on the water you have a lot of control, but from reading the manual, when you’re floating on air there’s a little more of a control issue.”

But control wasn’t an issue once he learned to fly. In the pilot seat, Pete takes over the hovercraft controls while HTC instructor Chris Fitzgerald provides constant guidance …

At the end of his training day, when asked what three words would best describe him, Pete said, “Adventurous, outgoing and in good health.” Then he added, “I’m not too old for this!”

You bet he isn’t! As Henry Ford - a man who knew a thing or two about vehicles - said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

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Windy Knoll Rolls Out the World's First Publicly Available Hovercraft Golf Cart

Swagger Alert!

You read about Windy Knoll Golf Club, the first in the world to make hovercraft golf carts available to its members and guests...

Photos courtesy New Era Sports Photography

Now check out the WK1 (modeled after the now world-famous BW1) in action as Hovercraft Training Centers trainer Steve Stafford chauffeurs World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez around the links. Starting this month, the WK1 will become the first hovercraft golf cart in public service, available for rent at $175 a pop.

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Hovercraft Golf Cart Featured in Yahoo! Finance Breakout Profile

In one of its "Breakout Profiles", which feature emerging American success stories and innovators, Yahoo! Finance gets to the real truth underneath all the madcap publicity over Bubba Watson's wacky hovercraft golf cart: all gimmicks and glamour aside, hovercraft save lives where no other vehicle can go. With proper training, hovercraft offer much more than a sweet ride that will make your fellow golfers green with envy. In fact, they can dramatically improve the efficacy of law enforcement, fire departments, and other search and rescue organizations.

From the article:                

"There’s no reason why the majority of fire departments and sheriff departments and emergency management people couldn’t have a hovercraft," (HTC founder and Neoteric President Chris) Fitzgerald argues. "It’s about the same price as a police motorcycle so we’re going to see these vehicles all over the world in these rescue situations."

Check it out here.

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