 When not acting or writing, Pidgeon travels to the European battlefields of the Second World War and is the only dwarf on record to have successfully completed flight training to solo in an ultra-light aircraft.One day he hopes to be the first dwarf to fly an ultra-light aircraft from Portsmouth in the south of England across the English Channel to the Port of Cherbourg on the Normandy coast of France.Currently, a documentary film about his flying adventures, "Eugene Can Fly!"