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Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director Bookmarks of the movie Hell's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being a successful movie producer and an aeronautics tycoon while simultaneously expanding more unpredictable because of extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The much however brief heralded trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures constructed by New Bargain Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in various other ways, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining 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.

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