15 Mar. 2000

Boating on a golf course, a desert, mud flats, or even over snow before skimming atop the ice ... who needs water when you have a hovercraft? And, Neoteric Hovercraft, Inc., of Terre Haute, Indiana USA, the world's original light hovercraft manufacturer, has just introduced a radically different hovercraft: the Hovertrek.

The Neoteric Hovertrek is the most technologically advanced and maneuverable amphibious vehicle available for recreational, rescue and commercial use. Custom- designed by Australia's premier designer, David Atkins, the Hovertrek won the "Hoverclub of America's 1999 Innovation Award".

This exciting hovercraft incorporates unique features that enable it to access areas that are simply unreachable by any other vehicle. With precise helicopter-like control, it has the ability to go in reverse, and is the only hovercraft on the market with effective brakes.

The Hovertrek has low environmental impact (an ecological footprint of 1/30th that of the human foot,) miserly fuel usage, and acts as an extremely stable work or rescue platform. A 55 HP, 2-cycle engine powers the ultra sleek Hovertrek, which measures 12 feet long, 6 feet 8 inches wide and weighs a mere 430 lbs. According to Christopher Fitzgerald, founder and President of Neoteric Hovercraft, "The Hovetrek has an incredible 120-mile range on a single fill up."

An extensive array of options are available to Hovertrek owners including: computer controlled reverse thrust for braking and backing up (a feature exclusive to Neoteric Hovercraft), side-by-side or in-line seating for 4, a fiberglass hard top 4-seater cabin enclosure, an easy on/easy off trailer, and communications equipment such as GPS satellite navigation and marine radio.

Cost efficiency was a major factor in the design of the Hovertrek: it sells for the price of a mid-size pick-up truck. The hovercraft's unlimited applications include everything from ecological and wildlife work to ice rescue, swift water rescue and flood rescue ... and, of course, a variety of recreational activities.

Neoteric provides free pilot training and maintenance instruction with Hovertrek purchase. The Hovertrek is also available as a partially assembled hovercraft kit at a substantially reduced price. Complete with a 4-hour, detailed hovercraft assembly instruction video, Neoteric's hovercraft kits give the do-it-yourselfer the experience of building a hovercraft while saving money.

And, by the way, if you happen to have some water available, it will hover over that too!

For more information about the Hovertrek or other recreational, rescue or commercial hovercraft, visit www.neoterichovercraft.com or contact:

Neoteric Hovercraft, Inc. Dept. 46 1649 Tippecanoe Street Terre Haute, IN 47807-2394, USA Phone 800-285-3761 E-mail: hovermail@neoterichovercraft.com