| Passed Private flight test on 3 June 1966 in a Cessna 150 (3887-U) in 1:30 hour after
42 lessons. Total hours were 45:20.
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In 1976, Gene purchased N80718 and completed 200 hours of Instrument training on 24 April 1977.
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CR182RG joined his fleet in February 1978 with 526/1 hours of flying aculmulated in just over 11 years with total hours over 1500 by 1981.
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.jpg) Gene exercised his license in his businesses helping small and medium
sized businesses throughout the mid-west while instrument training in N80718.
On government contracts he piloted N711EZ a
Cessna 182-RG when required to make frequent
short trips to train military recruiters, brief Adjutant General's, their staff, in 50 states on national and localized
public service advertising programs for 106 Air and Army Guards.
He visited Public Affairs Directors at over 750 television stations and 1500 radio stations, plus as time was available, major market newspaper publishers.
Flying himself allowed him to compress
multi-travel schedules to days instead of weeks visitng over 220 TV stations in three to four weeks and conduct three hour seminars in up to three states in one day.
He provided commerical flight services to small business onwers, coporate officers making non-commercial travel to their outlying facilities thus eliminating rental car drives.
Walter Kissinger used his services to visit his mid-west facilities, McCann-Erikson advertising agency executives hired him to take Buick execs to their sponsored golf tournaments.
Gene flew W.B Doner proposal teams to Washington for oral presentations, as well as serviced with nine field executives, all 48 contigous United States' National Guards as part of his three-cycle, $10.5 million annual
contract.
At Bendix Corporation was assigned 12 divisions in diverse industries including aviation, aerospace, automotive, communications, enivronmental instruments, recreational products, Home systems, automotive brakes, electronic components, avionics,
commercial refrigeration, NASA's Launch Support Division, Cape Canaveral, FL, NASA's Houston Manned Spacecraft Center in TX, and NASA's Goddard Space Tracking network in Maryland.
Gene provided Public Relations services and marketing advice as a corporate proposal team chief and advisor to plant managers at more than 25 sites around the globe.
During an Apollo 13 tracking network pre-flight check, he flew its Lockheed Tri-tail Super Constellation to Bermuda (Range Safety site) when calibrating its three 80-foot dish antenna network prior to that challenging
flight.
He had an opportunity to drive Bendix built Lunar rover on its test track at Cape Kennedy and make Apollo lunar landings and recoveries at sea in NASA's huge simulator as part of his assignment as Public Relations under the
launch control contract.
As a senior military officer with responsibilities to market both
Army Reserve and National Guard opportunities, Gene flew Phantom 4's, A-10'. T-100's, A-7 simulator, Gooney birds, OH-13, OH-1, Bell Jet
rangers and Huey's as familarization for public service announcements.
 He also rode the skids onboard the USS Annapolis as its Commerative Committee funding Chairman,
landed - refueled on board the Spiegel Grove troop carrier landing ship, and observed with ATLANTIC fleet Admiral on aircraft carrier, USS Kennedy's bridge.
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