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Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became a successful movie manufacturer and an aeronautics mogul while concurrently growing extra unpredictable as a result of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The short but much advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, aviator nation kids was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage miniatures built by New Deal Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in jeopardy his life in other ways, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground much to the dismay of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself airborne just a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros