Tom Hintz:
CLASS OF 1968
St. Francis High SchoolClass of 1968
St. francis, WI
Tom's Story
As many of you know I had the bright idea to quit high school and go to Vietnam after a recruiter showed me a picture of a door gunner in a helicopter. The idea of a bunch of 18 to 22 year olds zooming around the sky in a war zone with machine guns seemed like a better idea than it turned out to be but I made it.
I worked for years as a writer/photographer/editor for Circle Track Racing Magazine and later Stock Car Racing magazines. The gig with Circle Track is what moved me to Concord, NC (just outside Charlotte) I had an office at the Charlotte Motor Speedway but like many things when you got too close to Nascar the shine goes away. Then when Earnhardt died I pretty much lost interest in racing and built a woodworking web sit...Expand for more
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Fast forward another ten years and I was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's and after the "get your life in order" speech from the neurologist she also told me to take up a hobby that worked my brain. I knew just the thing and got back into RC flying after 25 years off. That evolved into a web site for that hobby and takes me to where I am today. Google searches will show both web sites since this site doesn;t allow the real world in a story.
Overall the Alzheimer's is progressing more slowly than the neurologist was expecting and she attributes that to my RC flying which is as close as yo can get to a prescription to fly RC planes. I continue that today and will as long as I can ind my way to and from the flying field.
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