#TBT: Bubba’s Hover: “The coolest thing to ever hit the golf course!”

On this #ThrowbackThursday, let’s hover back to Bubba. In 2013, golf pro Bubba Watson chose Neoteric to design and create the world’s first hovercraft golf cart. The viral video, Bubba’s Hover, was an immediate internet sensation - in only two weeks it had nearly 8 million views on YouTube alone - and it had also become a worldwide media phenomenon.

Enjoy a #TBT review of the Neoteric creation the media dubbed "the coolest thing to ever hit the golf course" ...

Star attraction at Voyageur Winter Carnival: Neoteric Hovercraft rides

Canada’s Voyageur Winter Carnival at Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay is the largest winter event in Northwestern Ontario. And Fort William Historical Park is one of the largest living history attractions in North America, bringing visitors from all over the world.

The Park’s 2017 Winter Carnival, known as Family Day Weekend, took place Feb. 18-20 and, as always, offered a weekend full of fun with a giant snow maze, tubing and sliding hills, skating, winter and carnival games, historical activities and indoor & outdoor entertaining. But something new was announced on their website this year ...

New this year – Hovercraft Rides!

Take an exhilarating ride and experience the Kamanistiquia River like you never have before – 

on a Neoteric Hovercraft!

Yes! Neoteric Hovercraft rides were the main attraction at the 2017 year’s Winter Carnival. In the past, helicopter rides were sometimes offered, but this year it was decided that hovercraft would be more exciting. Emily Carr, Communications Officer with Fort Williams Historical Park said, “New this year, we’re excited to have hovercraft rides. Visitors will be able to experience the Kamanistiquia River from a whole new exhilarating perspective. These hovercraft can go on ice and snow and take people down the Kam.”

The rides were piloted by Neoteric Founder/President Chris Fitzgerald and Vice President Steve Stafford on a 6-passenger Neoteric HoverTrek and a 4-passenger Neoteric HoverGolf Cart – the official replica of Bubba’s Hover, which was designed and manufactured by Neoteric.

On the first day of the Winter Carnival, visitors begin to line up for their first hovercraft ride.

People who took rides on the hovercraft were even more excited after the ride than they were before they launched. Sarah McKinnon, who attended the event with her husband and daughter, said, “The hovercraft was super cool. It was a lot of fun. I’m surprised by how fun it was actually.”

Chris Fitzgerald gives his passengers a few spins on the snow and ice-covered
Kamanistiquia River in Neoteric’s Bubba’s Hover.

After Thunder Bay’s John Lawson and his daughter Myla took a ride, he said, “There’s nothing quite like it. It’s a unique experience and I think everyone should give it a shot. Floating on a cushion of air isn’t something you do every day and it’s nice that the park had the opportunity to have this out here.”

Neoteric Vice President Steve Stafford flies a family down the Kamanistiquia River in a Neoteric HoverTrek. 

The hovercraft rides were definitely the star of the show and got a big "thumbs up" from everyone!

Today, the final day of the Voyageur Winter Carnival, Neoteric President Chris Fitzgerald reported in. “I wish I had a way to capture all the positive comments we’ve gotten. One fellow came back specifically to tell us that it was the best ride of his entire life. Kids love it, as well. I spent time with them to explain how hovercraft work and they really seem to appreciate this.”

“Everyone says we have the best job in the world, taking people for fun rides”, Fitzgerald concluded.

Neither snow nor ice nor water hazards and sand traps are an obstacle for a Neoteric Hovercraft.

Here, the Neoteric Bubba’s Hover gives another group of passengers their first hovercraft flight.

At the close of the highly successful 2017 Voyageur Winter Carnival, the two Neoteric hovercraft are loaded and ready for their long trek from Ontario back to Indiana ... 

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Event Organizers & Venues: 

Imagine the increased attendance and media attention your upcoming events

would bring with Neoteric Hovercraft rides as the star attraction. 

Then contact us to make it happen!

Bubba Claus ‘raps’ his Christmas gift – on his Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart

Bubba Watson has released a new Christmas-themed rap video as a gift to his fans, featuring his Neoteric-manufactured hovercraft golf cart, the BW1. And, like his viral video Bubba’s Hover, it’s taking the media by storm … although to somewhat mixed reviews.

The UK’s Daily Mail wrote, “Every rapper should have a cool set of wheels – and Watson’s golf buggy certainly oozes class!”

But the Golf Channel says, “Bubba Claus brings joy to your heart, pain to your ears.”

The Washington Post reported, “Bubba Watson knows the best way to offer a Christmas gift … he breaks out his hovercraft, making sure to remind everyone that he owns this awesome vehicle in the chorus:

“I just touched down in my hovercraft

I bet you wanna know what’s in my bag

Is it golf clubs or a bag of toys?

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

Is this an instant replay of the recent Browns/Bengals game, where fans loved the hovercraft but not the game? Watch the video, “Bubba Claus – The Single” then leave a comment and let us know what you think!

Cleveland Browns: 0 … Hovercraft Halftime Show: Touchdown!

Over the weekend, Windy Knoll Golf Club’s two Neoteric HoverGolf™ Carts were the star of the show at the Cleveland Browns-Cincinnati Bengals game at FirstEnergy Stadium. Windy Knoll was the first golf course in the U.S. to own official replicas of Bubba's Hover, Bubba Watson's BW1 hovercraft golf cart.

Steve Stafford, flight instructor at Hovercraft Training Centers, organized the hovercraft halftime show and described the action:  “At halftime, we fired up the hovercraft and flew around the field. Next, we each raced a passenger around some flags to the other end, where they got out and donned pink bunny suits,” he reported. “Then they both got back in, were hovered back to the starting point, where they each had to change bunny suits with their partner. After switching suits, both partners were flown back to the other end zone. The first one back got first choice of a gift held by each of the mascots. Both gifts were all-expense paid trips to upcoming football events.”

No fumbles in the hovercraft action! But the game itself was another story. Fans and media alike praised the hovercraft halftime show over the game.

The Wall Street Journal, in “Johnny Football Gets Deflated” wrote: “At halftime, people in pink bunny costumes raced hovercraft on the field. This was the highlight of the afternoon.”

A fan Tweeted, “Hovercraft race at halftime in Cleveland. It is approximately 400 times more interesting than the football game so far.”

The Washington Post  reported the live action, writing at halftime, “I am sure hovercraft racing at halftime will make fans forget all about what they just witnessed,” then after the game reported, “Alas, not even the hovercraft could help turn the momentum Cleveland’s way in the second half.”

In the end, the Bengals rolled past the Browns in a 30 – 0 rout. But the Neoteric HoverGolf™ Carts were a definite winner!

Enjoy a few photos below of the hovercraft scoring points …

At Cleveland's FirstEnergy Stadium, Windy Knoll's Neoteric HoverGolf™ Carts wait to enter the field:

In the Cleveland Browns' Dawg Pound, the hovercraft golf carts are ready for their halftime performance:

Left to right: Crew member Jody East, pilot Steve Stafford, pilot Preson Aleshire, and Cleveland Browns mascot Brownie the Elf inside the hovercraft:

Cleveland Browns mascot, Chomps, squeezes inside one of the Windy Knoll Neoteric HoverGolf™ Carts:

Touchdown! The Neoteric Hovercraft golf carts fly the race contenders during the halftime show, capturing more positive attention than the game itself:

Read more about Windy Knoll’s Neoteric Hovercraft golf carts …

The Peak magazine features Neoteric HoverGolf™ Cart

The Peak is one of the most popular and highest-circulating magazines in Asia, and is recognized for “defining the finer things in life for people who are on top of their game.”

So it’s only fitting that the May 2014 issue of The Peak features the Neoteric Hovercraft HoverGolf™ Cart as “one of the most important things you need to take to the golf course”!

Read what The Peak has to say …

Take the Direct Route

Who needs a golf cart when there are hovercraft easily available? Bubba Watson, winner of the 2012 Masters, teamed up with Oakley and viral video marketing agency Thinkmodo to create the world’s first hovercraft golf cart. With the ability to glide across water hazards and bunkers without harming the immaculately mowed course, the HoverGolf Cart will be sure to leave your fellow golf partners speechless – before they politely ask for a ride to their next hole!

www.neoterichovercraft.com

Tiger Woods is on the cover of this month's issue of The Peak. So what do you think? Should Tiger have a HoverGolf™ Cart like Bubba?

Hover like Bubba – HoverGolf Cart or not!

We’ve all seen Bubba’s Hover. But you don’t necessarily need a hovercraft golf cart per se to hover like Bubba – any Neoteric Hovercraft model will do.

And every golf game, every event - in fact, every day - is more spectacular when you have a hovercraft. For instance, watch Gary Meyers take a spin in his Neoteric HoverTrek, and attract the usual attention, at the Refuge Golf & Country Club’s Wine Festival in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. As one spectator observed, “You’re not a golf course until you have a hovercraft!” ...

Why did Gary Meyers buy a hovercraft? Here’s why …

Want to try one out yourself? Take a Test Flight …

How about a hovercraft joyride for Valentine’s Day?

Here’s a way to let Cupid take flight like never before: Give your significant other the gift of a joyride on a Neoteric Hovercraft – the makers of Bubba Watson’s hovercraft golf cart! This is a chance to hover like Bubba on water and land at the headquarters of Neoteric and Hovercraft Training Centers in Terre Haute, IN.

Here you can learn more about Neoteric Hovercraft from Wealth TV’s Emmy-nominated Jenn Barlow, host of Boys Toys:

Ready to give the most unique Valentine’s Day gift ever? There’s no better way to hover into your lover’s heart than a flight on a Neoteric Hovercraft! Just click below to register 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 your Valentine’s Day card.

Register now and let Cupid take flight! 

PGA pros Don Law and Mike Bennett hover like Bubba at Noble 10

Bubba Watson isn’t the only golf pro to hover into the future of golf carts. The prestigious Noble Financial Capital Markets 10th Annual Equity Conference (“Noble 10”) featured the Neoteric HoverGolf Cart - the official replica of Bubba’s BWI – and PGA golf pros and famed trainers Don Law and Mike Bennett were quick to jump on board.

Don Law is founder and director of the Don Law Golf Academy, one of the largest year-round training programs in the nation, and recipient of numerous PGA awards, including Golf Professional of the Year; President’s Plaque; Junior Leader; Bill Strausbaugh and the Distinguished Service Award.

Mike Bennett is co-founder of the Stack & Tilt Academy at Club Med in Port St. Lucie, Florida, where Noble 10 took place. Since 2005, Mike’s students have won more than 50 million dollars in PGA Tour winnings.

Before their presentations at Noble 10, Don Law (left) and Mike Bennett (right) gear up to experience Bubba’s Hover firsthand ... 

Neoteric’s Steve Stafford, a Hovercraft Training Centers instructor, flies the two pros over the course at Club Med.

Even with their decades of experience, after soaring in style in the HoverGolf Cart, what do you want to bet that these two golf pros will never look at the game in the same way again?

Neoteric Hovercraft are huge hit at exclusive business event

Noble Financial Capital Markets’ 10^th Annual Equity Conference (“Noble 10”), an exclusive event for Wall Street executives, investors, and world business leaders, has been dubbed “the ultimate adventure in capitalism.” But judging by the photos so far, this year’s Noble 10 may well become known as “the ultimate adventure in hovercrafting!”

Neoteric’s Steve Stafford, who is also a flight instructor at Hovercraft Training Centers, was invited to give rides in a Neoteric hovercraft and the Neoteric HoverGolf Cart at the event, which is taking place at Club Med in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Judging from the attention he’s getting, he could be piloting the greatest assets discussed at Noble 10!

Anything that can mesmerize kids on a beach is a definite attention-getter!

He's definitely up for this as the hovercraft launches onto the water!

And he's even more excited after his ride!

Steve reports that the excitement began long before he arrived in Florida: during transport, the hovercraft was photographed all across the country! There’s no doubt about it – from creating an event highlight, to encouraging charitable giving, to boosting military recruiting - there’s nothing like a Neoteric hovercraft for attracting attention!

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.

Wall Street, Club Med, Cadillac … and the Neoteric HoverGolf Cart!

The massive publicity created by Bubba’s Hover, the viral video of Bubba Watson’s BW1 hovercraft golf cart manufactured by Neoteric, has now evolved into a steadily rising level of prestige. As the world recognizes that the Neoteric HoverGolf Cart attracts major attention wherever it goes, it has definitely been going places - appearing as an attraction at charity events, grand openings, and special events of all types.

January 19-23, the HoverGolf Cart 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), Neoteric’s Steve Stafford, who is also an HTC Flight Instructor, will really get things off the ground with rides in the HoverGolf Cart.

In addition to corporate presentations, the 550 attendees and their families will enjoy every leisure activity imaginable – from sailing, paddle boarding and flying trapeze lessons, to tennis lessons with Gabriel Jaramillo and golf with the Club Med Academy and its world-famous teaching pros, who developed the Stack and Tilt golf swing technique. And, of course, hovering like Bubba in the Neoteric HoverGolf Cart!

In every way, this 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!”

Check in next week for event photos!

Watch Neoteric tomorrow on Discovery Channel/Velocity TV Tech Toys 360

Discovery Channel/ Velocity TV’s Tech Toys 360 travels the globe to find the most innovative vehicles, gadgets and gear and let you meet the people who created them. Now they’ve discovered Neoteric Hovercraft and the HoverGolf Cart!

Be sure to tune in tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 11 at 8:30 p.m. (7:30c) for the latest Tech Toys 360 episode, Above and Beyond! You'll meet Neoteric President Chris Fitzgerald, watch our hovercraft in flight, and take a tour through the Neoteric factory to see how Bubba's Hover was created. Here’s a preview …

The Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart: “Magnificent! We love it!”

The Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart is a huge hit in Las Vegas, as a showcased product at the 2013 Caesars Palace Great Gift Wrap Up. In the video clip below, Great Gift Wrap Up attendees Nancy and Frank D’Amico typify people’s reaction to this innovative vehicle - even if they aren’t golfers …

It's a vehicle like no other. As Caesars Palace says, "This is the first time a "jackpot" item is up for grabs: a Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart, an exact replica of the BW1 hovercraft golf cart Neoteric designed for Masters Champion Bubba Watson. As one of few built in the world, think of it as an ultra-modern golf cart - on steroids. Behind the wheel, be the James Bond of the golf course, as it effortlessly glides over fairway grass, water, sand traps and ice."

But as the D'Amicos quickly recognized, the Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart gives you an incredible drive even if you never swing a golf club. It complies with all U.S. Coast Guard standards and can be flown on any waters, snow or ice worldwide. What other golf cart can you use for river cruising, island hopping, ice fishing, snowmobiling and even surfing across mudflats? This is the one and only.

Caesars Palace? Ukraine? Never a dull moment at Neoteric!

This week we've posted job openings for a Purchasing Agent and a Web Developer at Neoteric – with more job postings to come. 

But why would you want to work at Neoteric? Well, saying “Never a dull moment” doesn’t really capture it. As a couple of examples, Neoteric President Chris Fitzgerald and Vice President of Marketing Filip Przybysz recently returned from Ukraine, where they trained personnel at Superior Golf & Spa Resort to fly their new Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart – the first one in Ukraine. (Full story & photos coming soon!)

Custom decals decorated Superior Golf & Spa’s hovercraft golf cart before shipping to Ukraine.

And Filip is in Las Vegas this week, showcasing the Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart at the Flamingo Casino in the Caesars Palace Great Gift Wrap Up for high rollers – where a $1 million dollar cash prize will be given away. Stay tuned for lots more about this event as well!

The Caesars Palace Hovercraft Golf Cart undergoes final performance testing before shipment to Las Vegas.

It’s all in a day’s work at Neoteric! Check our blog and website often for more job opportunities and more details about Neoteric’s latest adventures – and be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Purchasing Agent job opening at Neoteric Hovercraft

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.

We’re currently seeking a Purchasing Agent for our 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 bring your skills to the Neoteric team, please 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

To learn more about Neoteric Hovercraft, Inc., visit our web site …

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

Ukraine's first Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart

With its massive publicity, most everyone in the world knows that Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield, Ohio was the first of the world's 35,000 golf courses to own Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Carts - the official replica of Bubba's Hover. And now we have another first: Superior Golf & Spa Resort is the first golf course in Ukraine to treat its members to the latest and greatest way to glide across the greens ...

As it nears completion in the Neoteric assembly facility, custom decals are applied to the reverse thrust buckets of Superior Golf's craft:

Like every Neoteric craft, Superior Golf's Hovercraft Golf Cart undergoes performance testing on the Wabash River before being shipped to Ukraine: 

The retractable roof of the Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart makes it easy for golfers to hop in and out of the craft:

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Hovering over a Terre Haute success

The Terre Haute Tribune-Star gives kudos to Neoteric Hovercraft, recognizing the positive impact Neoteric is having on our city and state ...

Tribune-Star Editorial

Aug. 1, 2013

Hovering over a Terre Haute success

Finally, the world knows about Neoteric

Chris Fitzgerald’s Neoteric Hovercraft company of Terre Haute has become an overnight international success and a viral novelty in cyberspace.

Overnight, though, only if you translate that as meaning decades of envisioning, designing and building hovercraft in relative obscurity. Overnight in the same sense as an actor who becomes a Broadway star after decades of toiling in summer stock.

To most of the world, the successes of Fitzgerald and his crew on Tippecanoe Street are breaking news – all owing to the game of golf.

It was April when a Floridian named Bubba flew one of Neoteric’s customized craft over a golf course. Other players in their wheeled golf carts watched in amazement as 2012 Masters winner Bubba Watson floated on a bubble of air from shot to shot, nine inches off the ground, in a HoverGolf Cart, a craft whose footprint pressure is 33 times lighter than the human foot. And the craft leaves no spike marks, divots or golf cart tracks.

Fitzgerald was front and center in the video of Bubba’s hovercraft outing, narrating much of it and appearing in its opening section.

A few days later, NBC “Today” show co-hosts Matt Lauer and Al Roker showed a national morning TV audience how the hovering golf cart worked.

Last Friday, Indiana Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-8^th, visited Neoteric’s plant to consider working to make Neoteric in Terre Haute a training center for the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.

The next day, on a Saturday made for golf, Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield, Ohio, became the first of the world’s 35,000 golf courses to offer the Neoteric model, [the official replica of Bubba Watson’s BW1] to its players at what it termed the “Hover Bash.”

You’ll forgive Fitzgerald if he’s scratching his head and wondering what took so long. He said as much in an interview with Yahoo! News in April: “I’ve been in this business for 50 years. You can pull your hair out trying to figure out how to get this information out that this [hovercraft] technology exists. In one fell swoop, [Bubba’s Hover has] gotten across all these hovercraft concepts to people.”

Fitzgerald, a native of Melbourne, Australia, who says his first experience with hovercraft came in 1959, is “kind of a celebrity now,” Thinkmodo marketing company’s Michael Krivicka told Yahoo! News. “Millionaires from Russia are calling him, placing orders.”

Much less known than the golf outings is that two of Neoteric’s craft were used in May to help divers out of the water after the collapse of an Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state.

And perhaps forgotten is that Fitzgerald’s craft have been used several times to rescue local residents who were threatened by flood waters, as in that terrible day in June 2008 when heavy rains fell and deep water rose, especially in southern Vigo County.

With Neoteric’s newfound international notoriety comes a definite benefit for Terre Haute. As Neoteric’s Filip Przbysz told our Arthur Foulkes in a story a few days ago: “This could put Terre Haute on the world map.”

And it already has, and deserves the community’s congratulations.

It joins DADC, Bemis, the old Columbia Records, Larry Bird, Indiana State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and others in bringing worldwide distinction to Terre Haute and Vigo County.

But the difference with Neoteric is that it truly is riding on air.

Yahoo! Finance features Neoteric Hovercraft in "Breakout Profile"

Neoteric is honored to be featured by Yahoo! Finance in its “Breakout Profiles,”  which are dedicated to innovative companies doing extraordinary things. As the media have reported in Neoteric’s recent blast of publicity, Neoteric Hovercraft, Inc. “is certainly out of the ordinary” … and is far more than just the manufacturer of Bubba Watson’s BW1 hovercraft golf cart.

Neoteric is the world’s original light hovercraft manufacturer, and for half a century, has produced hovercraft for a diverse list of clients in more than 50 nations – from the U.S. Military and rescue agencies worldwide, to recreational and commercial customers … even for Disneyworld!

See videos and photos of the Yahoo! film shoot at Neoteric …

Congressman Larry Bucshon visits Neoteric Hovercraft

On July  26, NeotericHovercraft and Hovercraft Training Centers were honored to welcome Indiana Congressman Larry Bucshon, who visited to discuss his advice and advocacy on a proposal for HTC to provide hovercraft flight training to the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.

Hovercraft Training Centers is proposing that the U.S. Government provide initial military hovercraft crew training at its Terre Haute headquarters. Not only would this expedite the process and lower costs, it would also improve recruiting and lower the current trainee dropout rate because light hovercraft could be used to attract and prequalify suitable candidates.

The Congressman’s tour began at the Wabash River, with media interviews followed by a hovercraft flight on the river …

“I am acting as an advocate," Bucshon told the media. “We have a sagging economy, high unemployment rate – although that’s getting better. Any company that wants to expand in Terre Haute or in the 8^th District and create some jobs is a good thing.” ...

“We’re already training firefighters and police officers from all over the world, along with personnel from the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Air Force. That’s been going on for decades,” said Chris Fitzgerald, founder of Neoteric Hovercraft, Inc. and Hovercraft Training Centers ...

“I’m gonna get a hovercraft ride today!” Rep. Bucshon says with a smile as he boards an HTC Neoteric training hovercraft with his Deputy District Director, Matt Huckleby in the rear seat and Chris Fitzgerald at the controls ...

In their launch onto the Wabash River, Rep. Bucshon and Matt Huckleby experience the Neoteric hovercraft’s one-of-a-kind maneuverability due to its patented reverse thrust system ...

Via wireless headsets, Chris Fitzgerald explains hovercraft operation to Congressman Buschon and Matt Huckleby as they fly down the Wabash River ...

After the hovercraft flight on the river, Chris Fitzgerald (left) welcomes Rep. Bucshon (right) to the Neoteric Hovercraft factory. Here, they tour Neoteric’s fiberglassing facility ...

In deep discussion, Fitzgerald and Rep. Bucshon walk to Neoteric’s hovercraft assembly facility ...

Fitzgerald gives Rep. Bucshon a thorough overview of the final manufacturing processes for all Neoteric hovercraft. In the background, the rescue hovercraft owned by New Jersey’s Scullville Volunteer Fire Company awaits upgrades. Neoteric rescue hovercraft are used by first responders in more than 50 nations ... 

Rep. Bucshon has an opportunity to check out a Neoteric Hovercraft Golf Cart, to be delivered to the Superior Golf Club in Ukraine – the first non-U.S. golf course to own a replica of the BW1 hovercraft golf cart Neoteric manufactured for Bubba Watson ...

Deputy District Director Matt Huckleby (right) and Connor Lentz (left) learn how Neoteric hovercraft are custom manufactured. Lentz represents Congressman Bucshon's constituent affairs in Indiana's 8th Congressional District for the Department of Defense and Veteran's Affairs ...

The media take great interest in the factory tour ...

At the end of the factory tour, Rep. Bucshon and his representatives meet with Chris Fitzgerald to discuss how Hovercraft Training Centers’ proposal to train military LCAC and Ship-to-Shore Connector crews, as well as Homeland Security personnel, would benefit the U.S. Government as well as the Congressman’s district and state ...

See news coverage / videos of Rep. Bucshon’s hovercraft flight at:

Bucshon tours hovercraft company

Congressman in town to help local hovercraft company expand

Rep. Bucshon sees how military, first responders learn to use skill