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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and director of the movie Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie manufacturer and an aeronautics mogul while simultaneously growing extra unpredictable as a result of extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The much but brief declared flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures developed by New Bargain Studios get on display at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

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

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself airborne only a few minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros