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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective movie manufacturer and an air travel magnate while concurrently growing a lot more unpredictable due to serious obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The much but short advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis built by New Offer Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse at risking his life in various other means, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much 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 aviator nation sweatshirt dupe attempts to remain aloft, yet 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 mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros