Article: Flying boats from Terre Haute. (Neoteric Hovercraft Inc. of Terre Haut, Indiana)

Are you in need of a rescue craft for saving people in waterlogged terrain? Do you produce agricultural products that need to be tended without so much as a brush of the equipment? Or is your city seeking inexpensive cruisers for your navigable river? Hovercraft are the answer to all of the above.

Neoteric Hovercraft Inc. is one of seven companies worldwide that design, manufacture and ship these "flying boats." Based in Terre Haute since 1975, the company was organized by its president, Christopher Fitzgerald, and colleagues from the Australian Air Training Corps Cadets in the early '60s.

Why Terre Haute? Engineering-trained Fitzgerald explains, "We needed ...

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