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Wanted: Hovercraft & other Modern Transportation

During the first 2 weeks in January 2011 here in the Philippines, widespread rains, floods with
landslides had killed some 55 people due to the severe natural disasters across our archipelago.
Rains continued over much of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao regions according to the National
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Those who were killed, ages 1 to 80, died from
drowning, landslides and electrocution. Twelve people were missing; another eight were hurt all from
the landslides again at the same prohibited landslide-prone areas in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte.
The rainstorms started on December 29, when a monsoon over in northern and central Luzon met a
cold front in southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Thus, they resulted in severe floods and
landslides in 25 provinces. The heavy rainstorms affected about 1.6 million people from more than
300,000 families according to the government agency.

Meanwhile down in Queensland, the sugar and coal-producing state in northeastern Australia, the
death toll from the 6 weeks of inundation climbed to 20. The weeks of floods devastated homes,
destroyed crops and closed mines. The inland tsunami swept across Australia's second largest inland
city, which left thousands homeless in over 40 towns. Cars were tossed down the overflowed streets,
canals and rivers like toys and people clung to the trees and signposts when the tsunami hit
Toowoomba, a cathedral city of 90,000 some 79 miles west of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland.
Thousands of the residents suffered from their worst floods in 100 years! Australia's devastating floods
was estimated to drain their economy to more than $15 billion (Aust.) off GDP, worse than Hurricane
Katrina which hit the United States in 2005. "Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser said it was not yet
possible to say how much the worst floods in more than a century would cost, but that they were a real
blow to the Queensland economy." The floods caused the mining areas and Great Barrier Reef state
of Queensland into a disaster zone. Cyclone Tasha and other storms were responsible for dumping so

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much rain over the past weeks in northeastern Australia, which resulted in above normal ocean
temperatures in the West Pacific due to La Nina. The Australian floods affected an area the size of
France and Germany combined!

The recent floods and landslide in the Philippines unfortunately took about 55 human lives, in
addition to about 68 who died in July 2010 when Typhoon "Basyang" hit, and the unforgetable over
1000 residents who lost their lives in Metro Manila and Northern Luzon during the 2009 Typhoon
"Ondoy" and Typhoon "Pepeng" respectively! Hundreds and hundreds of them would have been saved
if the government agencies, organizations, passenger and cargo shipping, other companies and
industries, and some individuals had purchased, maintained and prepared at all times the rescue and
passenger hovercraft transportation. Many of the Filipinos and foreign residents in the country
including some of the politicians, movie, TV, music and sports celebrities, business persons, other
professionals and groups can afford to buy the amphibious vehicles in addition to their one or two
vehicles in their garage. Some of them can afford to buy the imported sports cars, but they refuse to
purchase the necessary amphibian or hovercraft vehicles.

Metro Manila's floods will happen again, again, again ... !

Through their headquarters located in foreign countries, some of the charitable groups like the International Red Cross,
World Vision, United Way International, the churches and missions of the Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations, and
other religious organizations can certainly secure the ex-military or surplus amphibian vehicles. They can park them in the
strategic and disaster-prone areas, maintain and keep them ready to save the people who need assistance or help in the next
natural catastrophes. Since about 94% of the 100 plus million Philippine population profess to be Christians, they all need to "be
prepared" for the Great Tribulation! The multi-mission hovercraft is one practical solution to the perennial rains and floods in our
country.

The passenger, rescue hovercraft & amphibious vehicles are indispensable in our archipelago prone
to rainstorms, typhoons, floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.
First top reason why we Filipinos need the hovercraft, amphibious vehicles as as well the other modern inter-island
transportation is that we have the usual and predictable typhoons, heavy rains and floods in hundreds of our 7107-island country
particularly in the low level regions like Metro Manila. Despite our country's over 7100 islands, we have more buses, cars,
jeepneys, motorcabs, motorcycles, pedicabs, taxis, trucks, vans, other land vehicles and the heavy traffic in our narrow streets
and highways than the total numbers of passenger boats and ships! We Filipinos allow ourselves to be brainwashed by the
psychological advertisements, promotions and commercialization of the land-engineered transportation through the Hollywood
movies, TVs, billboards, and other mass media including the Internet. We patronize the modes of land transportation systems of
the foreign countries composed of big land mass such as Australia, mainland Asia, Russia and its Federation Republics, Middle
East, Scandinavia, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, Canada, America, Central and South America.

Second top reason why we need the modern inter-island means of modern transportation is that history repeats itself so
many times in our archipelago with expected typhoons, floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other deadly and
destructive forces of nature! In times of emergencies like what just happened these 2 weeks of January 2011 and last July 2010
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when Typhoon "Basyang" caused the death of about 68 people, in addition to the 2009 successive typhoons which killed more
than a thousand Philippine residents, the owners or operators of the hovercraft and amphibious vehicles could have driven them
to rescue their own family members, relatives, friends and/or neighbors from the rains and floods in Surigao and Agusan,
Mindanao, and during the calamities in Metro Manila, Central and Northern Luzon provinces. Thus our country needs not only the
hovercraft, but also the amphibious vehicles.

The Russian Gerris Hovercraft can fast speed at more than 150 kms. per hour

Third top reason why we need the modern means of transportation is that our "government agencies and private developers
are jointly liable for the massive loss of life and property in several Metro Manila cities for practicing poor urban planning and
allowing commercial and residential structures to be built in flood-prone areas, according to 'green' architect and urban planner
Felino Palafox Jr. Palafox said a 1977 World Bank-funded study identified Marikina Valley, the western shores of Laguna de Bay,
and the Manila Bay coastal area as among development areas that should prepare for flooding, earthquakes and possible
changes in topography." We need the logical means of transportation to get away quickly when, not if, the typhoons, rains, floods
and/or earthquakes occur again in Metro Manila, other low-level and earthquake-prone cities and towns in the Philippines.

Fourth top reason why we need the passenger hovercraft and other modern means of
transportation is that our coast lines, if connected together, are 2.5 times longer than that of the U.S.A.
We need the convenient, efficient and super fast inter-island transports to serve the tourists, visitors
and other travelers directly to the coasts and/or nearest to the ecological and tourist attractions around
our numerous tropical islands. The hovercraft and wing-in-ground effect vehicles can carry more
passengers and cargoes faster to the coastal cities and towns without the seaports and airports. They
are capable or short-cut trips which the standard ferries, ships and aircrafts cannot do to serve their
special passengers with various activities to fulfill their check list, but limited days for a tropical
vacation.
Fifth top reason why we Filipinos in other provinces, for example Southern Leyte, need the
hovercraft and other modern transportation is that we are way behind in the booming economic
developments and tourism-related industries just like in Bohol, Cebu, Negros and Boracay. We do not
have the efficient, faster and safer means of sea transportation including the fast catamaran
engineered to perform like a hovercraft. The largest in Eastern Visayas, Maasin City seaport, which
Magellan and his troops had seen as a small fishing and agricultural village during the 15th century,
has no daily and fast transportation to Cebu City - the oldest and second largest metropolitan city in
the Philippines.

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The Canadian Vanair Hovercraft

Hundreds of the foreign students, tourists and other visitors have been arriving daily at the Cebu-
Mactan International Airport. Many of them take the fast boats or ferries from Cebu City to Tagbilaran
City and Ormoc City to visit and tour Bohol and Leyte, but not Southern Leyte. The foreign students,
tourists and other visitors do not know that we exist! They do not know that Southern Leyte has the
"green" valleys, hills, mountains, rainforests and the Pacific Ocean to the east. The capital city and all
the towns of Southern Leyte are located on the elevated coasts; the hills and mountains are less than
one kilometer from the sea shores. Located in central southeastern region of the Philippines, Southern
Leyte has the historical Limasawa island, shares the World War-2 history of Gen. MacArthur's Leyte
landing, and Battle of Surigao Strait. It has the various ecological attractions such as coral reefs,
mangroves, the gray, ivory and white sandy beaches, caves, waterfalls, the famous whale sharks and
dolphins, 3 foreign-owned and operated scuba diving and resorts, new Agas-Agas Bridge - tallest
bridge in the country - and many other very scenic tropical sights and sounds.
What should we do to attract and motivate the local students, tourists and visitors from other
islands in our backyards as well as from other countries to take a vacation, visit or tour the ecological
and historical attractions in Southern Leyte? We need the passenger hovercraft! Why do we need the
hovercraft instead of the water-jet passenger catamarans? Here are the top reasons we gathered from
the Internet and from our own observations:

Q: Why do we need the hovercraft?

A: Lots of reasons, including all of these:

1. Hovercraft fly over the waves rather than through them, so they offer a smoother ride than
conventional boats
2. Hovercraft fly on a cushion of air over the water. They do not have a propeller that can be disabled
by hitting unseen objects beneath the water's surface. They are ideal crafts for rescue operations in
flooded areas.
3. Hovercraft are needed to save the victims when, not if, we have the undersea earthquakes and
tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, typhoons, heavy rains, landslides, and floods particularly in low-level city
like Metro Manila. With the advent of increasing volume of sea waters due to the melting of the ice in
the North Pole, South Pole, the ice and snow in the mountain glaciers which is caused by global
warming or climate changes and the future big earthquakes, Metro Manila would be submerged
permanently like the "Atlantis", Tuvalu in the South Pacific and other low-level cities, towns and
countries worldwide.
4. Hovercraft do not need a pier or seaport where the real sharks are: the bureaucrats, exclusive
stevedore operators and the bad elements in our society. They are biting, eating and getting the
money of the poor and average passengers, draining the little money they have left in their pockets.
They are victimizing the "balikbayans" and foreign tourists with overpriced fees with no receipt for
carrying their bags, boxes, luggages, etc.
5. Hovercraft have a wider beam (width) than traditional boats, so they are more spacious and
comfortable than boats or ships
6. Hovercraft are not as loud as you'd think. New technology has lowered noise levels
7. Hovercraft are more environmentally friendly because they don't leave a wake which disturbs fragile
sea beds or trails on land
8. Hovercraft are needed by our military and police departments to serve and protect their own lives
from the terrorists, rebels, criminals, etc.
9. Hovercraft can go where traditional cars and boats can't - from land to water and back - and can
hover the shortest distance from Cebu City to Maasin City and Surigao City, for example, thus saving
traveling time.

Q: So what do people use hovercraft for?

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A: The real questions might be what they do not use them for! Around the world, you could find the
hovercraft being used in some of these situations and much many more:

The Canadian Coast Guard

1. As search and rescue vehicles for marshy wetlands, flooded cities and towns, coastal areas hit by typhoons, earthquakes,
tsunamis, landslides ...
2. As daily transportation in Europe, American continent and few Asian countries
3. As tourist 'buses' for water/land tours in Canada and some other countries
4. As charter services in the Caribbean to reach islands with shallow harbors
5. As transportation in narrow channels where high speed ferry services are restricted due to beach erosion from wakes
6. As convenient vehicles between cities on major lakes which do not have deep harbors or long piers
7. As cargo transportation over ice, snow, water, and mud for oil research and exploration
8. As 'floating' platforms for combines equipment during wheat harvests in Russia
9. As the ultimate personal yacht for cruising shorelines, harbors, rivers and lakes

Q: What else can hovercraft do?

A: Hovercraft can do many things that traditional vehicles do, but they can do some additional things:

1. Hovercraft can travel faster than traditional hulled boats

2. Hovercraft can go over fragile ecologically sensitive areas without damaging them
3. Hovercraft can go over flat surfaces - water or land - and transition between them with no impact
4. Hovercraft can be parked inside a building when not in use or when being maintained
5. Hovercraft can be quickly removed from the seawater and tied down during a typhoon, undersea
earthquakes and tsunamis. No more repetition of ships similar to the PRINCESS OF THE STARS
which capsized and drowned over 850 passengers and crew members on June 21, 2008 near Sibuyan Island in Central
Philippines!

Q: What hovercraft cannot do?

A: There are some things hovercraft cannot do, including the following:

1. Hovercraft are not designed for crossing oceans. With large enough hovercraft, you could navigate
heavy surfs, but they are not intended to be used as trans-oceanic vehicles.
2. Hovercraft do not climb hills well. They need flat surfaces... but they can go over bumps in the
surface and some rough water without rocking - no motion sickness!
3. Hovercraft can't fly as high as the aircrafts and helicopters. However, there are few new hovercraft
designed to "fly" over the surfaces like that of the Wing-In-Ground (WIG) effect crafts, but the hull will
never go more than about 15 feet above the surface, and the bottom of the skirt will just be few feet
above the surface.

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The Russian WIG or Ekranoplan

WIG effect technology will replace someday the inconvenient, slow & unsafe ships & ocean liners
Russia is the first country to build the military and cargo WIG! Russia is far ahead than any other
country in the WIG technology or Ekranoplan. The Ekranoplan can be designed and engineered to
carry passengers paying at considerably lower fare and much safer mode of travel than flying the
popular, but very expensive airlines within our 7107-island country!
The Wing-in-Ground (WIG) effect vehicle is an advanced hybrid air cushion craft which provides
the highest combination of speed, fuel efficiency, lower production costs, and very smooth flight with no
sea sickness. A WIG rides above the surface like an airplane on a dynamic air cushion which is
produced by the craft's forward motion. Whereas, a hovercraft rides on a captured air bubble (CAB)
which is produced by a mechanical blower - from the fan or centrifugal compressor. The air from the
fan in the hovercraft is confined under its body by an inflated skirt which surrounds the hull of the craft.
The speed and efficiency of a WIG are much higher than that of a hovercraft because the WIG has no
power lost as that of a blower fan which forces the air under the fuselage of the hovercraft and down to
the surface of the sea, lake, land or snow, and no bulging skirt which causes drag.
The WIG technology shares with some other types of marine and air vehicles. The hydrodynamics
of the main hull is similar to that of the high performance powerboats, seaplanes, or flying boats' hull.
The hydrodynamics of the wing endplates is similar to that of a catamaran's hulls and hydroplane
sponsons. Under the wing of the WIG, the flow of ram air is similar to that under the hull of a racing
power boat. The WIG's propulsion and operation when it is airborne few feet above the water are
identical to that of the hovercraft and airboat. The flight performance, stability and control of the WIG
are similar to that of an aircraft.

The German Airfish-8

Advantages of the Wing-In-Ground effect vehicles are:

1. The WIG vehicle can operate over and take off from the sheltered or calmer seas, the lakes, river deltas, coastal areas and
archipelagos. It can operate over flat surfaces such as the shallow waters, coral reefs, sea shores, rice fields, wetlands, or the
ice and snow in countries located farther north and south of the equator.
2. When the pilot or operator reduces the speed of the craft, the landing area is always directly below no matter where he or she
navigates to.
3. The WIG can "fly" or hover at speeds about 3 to 7 times faster than the fastest passenger catamarans, ferries or inter-island
ships in the Philippines, for instance. The Aron-7 can hover much higher than the other small WIGs which is the logical sea-
aircraft for the seasonal rough seas in our country.
4. WIGs can be designed and engineered to hover at over 500 knots.
5. They operate at the costs of around 1/3 to 1/5 less than the airlines currently serving in the Philippines.
6. They do not need pressurized cabins and the very expensive aircraft fuel.
7. They can be built with engines which operate either on biodiesel or ethanol, or be installed with the multi-fueled Rotapower
engines which are being used in the production of the futuristic Moller Skycars!

The WIG is the best type of very practical sea transportation for the Philippine Navy, Philippine
Coast Guard and Philippine National Police. We are a tropical country composed of 7107 islands. So,
why do most travel conscious people copy the means of land and air transportation of, for instance, the
State of Nevada which is approximately the size of the entire Philippines? Under the new
administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III, the Philippine Air Force is going to upgrade. The
WIG made in the Republic of Korea, for example, is the perfect solution to the sea patrol missions and
to replace many of the obsolete Philippine military aircrafts and patrol boats and ships. It has low radar
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and low infrared signatures. It is difficult to detect on satellites. In large WIG craft, it is capable of very
fast deployment of the marine, army and special forces or the S.W.A.T. police troops. At a mere
mobile phone call or very quick notice, the pilot can launch from either land or sea.

The Korean Aron-7 WIG

Other features of the Wing-In-Ground effect vehicles are:

1. In reference to the passenger WIG craft, there is no need of the expensive, overcrowded and very high "terminal fees" which
the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and other Philippine airports are collecting. No more hundreds of the students, tourists,
visitors and the "balikbayans" complaining of the compulsory terminal fees which do not exist in foreign countries' airports.
2. The WIG does not require the very expensive infrastructures or "white elephant" airports and seaports which are commonly
seen in the Philippines. Again, the WIG craft or vehicle can land and take off at short distance from the sheltered or calmer seas,
lakes, river deltas, coastal areas and archipelagos. It can hover or "fly" over flat surfaces such as the shallow waters, coral reefs,
sea shores, rice fields, wetlands, etc.
3. From Batanes islands up north of Luzon and down to the southernmost islands in Mindanao, the passengers from and near
the eastern and western coastal towns and cities of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao regions and vice versa could easily, speedily
and safely travel on WIGs due to the absence of heavy traffic and bad road conditions (when there are unfavorable weather)
commonly encountered in land transportation.
4. Wing-In-Ground effect transports can carry the military or police forces as well as the civilian passengers or cargo to places
where neither ships nor airplanes have gone before!

"Ground effect is still the most efficient form of powered flight known to man... When an
aerodynamic wing is close to a ground plane, such as water, lift is increased by as much as 45% and
induced drag decreased by up to 70%. This is vastly different to normal operation of an aircraft wing in
free flight away from the ground. The main benefits when a craft is operating within ground effect are
that speed, payload and fuel economies are considerably more efficient than with traditional boat,
plane and helicopter transport."
The renewable & clean energies for the multi-fueled, efficient, faster and safer modern transports are
the trends globally
The cost of the bunker, diesel, gasoline and airplane fuels are continually fluctuating due to the
cunning price manipulations of the obsolete oil cartels, refiners, dealers and their stockholders. They
are causing hundreds of the passengers in, for instance, Leyte and Southern Leyte to patronize the
less expensive, but older and slower ships from Bato, Hilongos, Baybay or Ormoc City to Cebu City.
Thus, we need the alternative, renewable and cheaper sources of energies to power up the hovercraft
and modern ferries. The present operators of passenger hovercraft globally utilize the diesel fuel to
energize their air cushion vehicles (ACV). Our locally produced and the imported oils are expensive.
That is the # 1 reason why the SuperCat and WaterJet do not operate anymore in Maasin City,
Surigao City, and other cities in the Visayas and northern Mindanao regions. Capable of using the
biodiesel, the hovercraft and ferry are also available in lightweight composite materials which reduce
drag and save fuel consumption.

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The American Moller Skycars operate on cleaner & renewable fuels!

It is now a Philippine law - Philippine Biofuels Act of 2006 - that the fuel refiners and producers
must gradually increase the percentage of their fuel productions to the alternative, renewable and
cleaner fuels. We have our top expert in the Philippines and U.N. consultant on biodiesel development
and production, Dr. Rico O. Cruz. Based in the U.S.A., Dr. Cruz and company "have partnered with the
following countries: Australia, Azerbaijan, Belize, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, Ghana,
India, Paraguay, Philippines, Russia, Turkey, Uganda, United States, and Vietnam" to assist them in
the pioneering development and production on biodiesel fuels.
The Biofuels Law or R.A. 9367 is investor-friendly. "It provides tax incentives and financial
assistance to encourage investments in biofuels. The tax incentives include a 0% specific tax on local
or imported biofuel component per liter of fuel. Another is the exemption of the sale of raw material
used in the production of biofuels from the Value Added Tax.... On the one hand, RA 9367 mandates
that the Development Bank of the Philippines, Land Bank of the Philippines, Quedancor and other
government financial institutions extend financing to those engaged in the production, storage,
handling and transport of biofuel and biofuel feedstock, and the blending of biofuels with petroleum."
If we want to be really free from the imported oil's 100-year slavery, there is always a way. We have
the inventor of the water-powered car since 40 years ago. However, Daniel Dingel is not the only
inventor of the water or hydrogen-powered car or engine. The hydrogen-powered engines are
available today which can be utilized to run the inter-island transportation. Again, we have our country's
#1 expert and U.N. consultant on biodiesel fuels development and production.
Furthermore, our 7107-island country is surrounded with sea waters. We can in the future tap the
unlimited tidal power or the undersea currents. For example: Under the Liloan bridge in Southern
Leyte, in San Juanico Strait between Leyte and Samar islands, the tidal power between Luzon and
Mindoro, between Luzon and Samar, between Panay and Guimaras, between Cebu and Negros
islands, and between Dinagat island and Surigao City in northeast Mindanao, we can build the power
stations to generate electricity for the entire Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao regions! We have the
existing geothermal electric plants in Central Visayas and Southern Luzon as well as the wind-driven
electric generators in Northern Luzon. We have the tropical sunlight to charge the solar cells and the
deuterium ... courtesy of our Heavenly Father, Savior and Provider!

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The Australian Solar Sailor

There are new means of transportation which utilize the wind to drive the computerized sail and
with the sun to energize the solar cells to generate electricity. The electricity powers the motors which
are connected to the propellers. The wind, solar and electric-driven ferry has rechargeable batteries
and a backup engine in case of slow wind and/or dark skies to charge the motors, which in turn propel
the ship to its destination.
In Southern Leyte, we desperately need to open the daily hovercraft and modern transportation
services from Maasin City and other major towns to Cebu City and back. From Cebu City in addition
to Maasin City, the passenger hovercraft are the best type of sea transportation to Surigao City,
Butuan City, Cagayan de Oro City and vice versa. There are certain towns in Central Philippines that
have no pier or seaport from which thousands of their residents would surely prefer to ride the very
convenient, efficient, fast and safe passenger hovercraft to do business in Cebu City.
If you search Maasin City through Google Earth, you will notice that Maasin is strategically located
to the big cities in Northern Mindanao. To save time for the travelers from Iligan City, Ozamiz City,
Oroquieta City, Dapitan and other big cities and towns in northwestern Mindanao that are going to
Metro Manila, the passengers on hovercraft can fast speed to Maasin City. From Maasin's big and
clean bus station, they can transfer to the 5 or more modern and fully air-con buses, which are the least
expensive means to travel by land to Metro Manila. The buses from Maasin City to Metro Manila run
daily via Leyte's capital, Tacloban City, then they continue to travel through the entire Samar Island up
to its northernmost point. They transfer by ferry to Albay in Southern Luzon and continue their trip until
they arrive at the Pasay and Cubao bus stations in Metro Manila.

Stranded residents, students, workers, etc. are familiar sights in Metro Manila's common floods!

Invest in the modern transports to serve, protect & save the people's lives

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It is possible that the proposed passenger hovercraft and other modern transportation can be
realized with the help of the "people's power" from the Overseas Filipino Workers and the Filipino
citizens and residents in foreign countries. The Overseas Filipino Workers and former Filipino citizens
living in other countries are remitting several billions in European Union's euros and U.S. dollars to
their families and loved ones in our country. Their remittances are the "secrets" to our growing
economy! However, the remittance-driven economy is like a band-aid remedy to the major economic
crisis in our country.
We have the temporary remittance power from the Overseas Filipino Workers to counter-attack
against our country's economic manipulators - the mega oil cartels, refiners, gas dealers, their
stockholders, lobbyist group, etc. In the past 100 years, they have been turning us into slaves due to
their artificial controls and manipulations regarding the prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosine and other
fossil-based fuels! It is common knowledge among the highly educated Filipino population that the oil
companies and industries contribute thousands to millions of dollars/pesos to the politicians to spend
for their very, very expensive election campaigns, which in turn is one cause to the lack of motivation
among some government leaders and officials to support the full utilization of the alternative,
renewable and less expensive sources of energy to operate the modified and new "green" vehicles.
Let us follow the energy policies and politicians in Brazil not the Americans who are addicted to the oil
for 100 years!

The British Amphicoach can save many people in Metro Manila's next mega floods!

Hundreds of the top Filipino politicians, officials and celebrities can afford to trade-in or buy the
vehicles which use the renewable and cleaner energies, but they do not set the right example for their
fellow Filipinos. Some of them even own or are related to the owners of large sugar cane plantations
which can also be processed into ethanol for fuel, just like those in Brazil. The Filipino VIPs can
certainly afford to purchase the rescue hovercraft or amphibian vehicles and use them to save their
own family, friends and constituents in the next natural disasters.
Therefore, we would like to invite the Overseas Filipino Workers and former Filipino citizens, and
residents in foreign countries to invest in the passenger hovercraft and other modern transportation for
inter-island travel and emergencies as well as in the mass production of the alternative, renewable and
cleaner fuels. The hovercraft and other modern transports can motivate and inspire us to change our
centuries-old ways and means of sea, river and lake transportation. They can provide us with faster,
safer, convenient and effecient transportation. They can save hundreds of the people in times of
emergencies. Numerous bus line operators in the country can afford to purchase at least one
amphibious bus similar to the ones which are being used successfully in Europe. In addition, the
famous bus body manufacturers, vehicle and motorcycle assemblers or factories in the Philippines are
capable of building the amphibian buses, trucks, personal sports amphibian, and other types of
amphibious vehicles under license by the foreign inventors. They can invent and modify their own
transports similar to that of the ex-military or surplus amphibian vehicles.

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The world famous British Griffon-Hoverwork

We have contacted recently the top passenger hovercraft operators in Western Europe and invited
them to consider investing in Central Philippines and Northern Mindanao. The European passenger
hovercraft companies have responded with positive interests. They are studying the matter with their
top management staff. One bus and hovercraft transportation company in Holland has expressed its
interest. The company plans to initiate the inter-island passenger transportation sometime in the first
quarter of 2011, or never depending on our politicians. Let us us hope and pray that the very good
national and international investors would join hands together to assist us with at least 2 or more daily
trips from Southern Leyte to Cebu City, and in other coastal towns and cities nationwide using the new
130 or 180-passenger hovercraft and/or other modern commercial transportation.
In these times of advanced research and developments, concept designs and successfully tested
experiments of new inventions and modified ones, there are existing vehicles which are far more
practical means of transportation to commute or travel to other islands in our country. Why wait until
tomorrow or the next few years when they can be utilized today? The FBMA Marine Inc. located in
western Cebu is one of the best fast passenger catamaran or ferry builders in the world! Some of the
FBMA's large passenger catamarans have been exported to other countries.

The Philippine-made passenger catamarans or ferries!

In foreign countries, the advanced fast crafts of the original naval architects, inventors or
manufacturers can be built under license in the Philippines. They can also be modified using the
available materials and the alternative, renewable and cleaner sources of energies to operate the fast
ferries and other modern transports. The costs of production are considerably much lower by hiring the
over supply of new graduates each year from the colleges, universities, technical and trade schools,
and by utilizing the geothermal-generated electricity to manufacture the modern transports. Hundreds
of the new graduates will end up applying to work abroad due to the lack of job opportunities in our
own country.
The foreign hovercraft and other modern transport manufacturers and operators' experiences and
investments as well as those of the Overseas Filipino Workers' remittances can surely assist us to
serve, protect and save our lives from the deadly and destructive forces of nature. Moreover, they are
equally vital to our tourism and other economic developments so as to eliminate our over dependence
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of the politicians and our government, to eliminate our historical, traditional and religious influences,
and to eliminate our "bahala na" existing or living attitudes. We, the people in Luzon, Visayas and
Mindanao regions, need to do our part by supporting, cooperating, advertising, promoting and
patronizing the urgently needed very efficient, very fast and very safe passenger, rescue hovercraft and
amphibious vehicles. Furthermore, our 7107-island country needs the other modern inter-island
transportation.
Christ said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. But
take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of
this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on
the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to
escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:33-36).
Fellow Filipinos, friends and brethren, we need the passenger, rescue hovercraft, amphibious vehicles
and other modern transportation. We need them today before another gigantic natural disaster will, not
if, hit our island, our province, our region and our country in the next few months and years. Let's all "be
prepared" too for the Great Tribulations or Signs of the Times whether they will cause the most deadly,
the most destructive and the most terrible consequences in our lifetimes or the next generations!

For your additional information and inspiration, please see the links below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSrhjD72E4o&feature=fvsre3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPhcwfvgis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3DcLCZrgxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm6PDDj-k_k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwxgBRrlN08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVt78EL_Bs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18trsnYhIs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzqE1o4Rlng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8eBi0aVjGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopG3iy-qsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3GdHBm2djA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yWXhMmT4Lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPqLWQZadgE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9B9gYOMtiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfK2uxcapXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6FSKIKlei0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0wN683fLiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssyJTKRW_F4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlqRWCY97Vo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9q_2uIk-M&feature=related
Airports in the Philippines, List of
Airventure 2010 World's Greatest Air Show
Amphibious Bus
Aquaglide 5
Beriev BE A-40 Albatross Amphibian
Beriev BE - 42 A-40 Albatross Mermaid
Beriev Be-200
Ekranoplan - the future
Fastest Passenger Hovercraft
Fighter jet - Russian
Fighter jets and bombers: The cost of one is equal to 30 to over 50 passenger hovercraft
Flightship
Flyship 80
Gidroaviasalon Air Show Part 1/5
Helicopters
HoverAid Hovercraft
Hovercraft Museum
Hoverwing Technology
MAKS - International Aviation and Space Salon
Nautic Expo
New Generation of High Speed Marine Craft
P-6 M Seamaster Jet
Passenger Hovercraft and Flying Hovercraft
PlanetSolar - world's biggest solar-powered boat
Radacraft C-850
Russian "UFO"
Sea Eagle International
Solar-powered aircraft or plane
Transportation in the Philippines - 1
Transportation in the Philippines - 2
2010 Amphibious Cars, Motorcycles, Trucks & other Vehicles
Ultralights
UFO Cover-up
Uses of the Ground Effect Vehicles
Velocity 30
Why are ground effect crafts being developed?
Why the WIG has greater efficiency, economy and safety than the ship and aircraft
Wing-in-Ground Effect Information
WIG Pictures

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at the FEATI University. He apprenticed few years for a passenger shipping firm
and worked at the Bureau of Public Works in S outhern Leyte.

Copyright 2011 by S amuel V. Mercado, 7th Millennium Community

Maasin City 06600, S outhern Leyte, Philippines

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