The Aviator.

Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes came to be an effective movie manufacturer and an aviation tycoon while concurrently growing a lot more unstable because of extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The much yet short advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Beach The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures constructed by New Deal Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in other methods, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to stay aloft, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself in the air just a few mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation sweatshirt purple pictures: Miramax Detector Bros