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Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective film manufacturer and an aviation magnate while concurrently expanding more unpredictable because of extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The short however much advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis developed by New Deal Studios get on display screen at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in various other means, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can keep itself in the air just a couple of minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator Nation Sweatshirt images: Miramax Detector Bros