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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be a successful movie producer and an air travel mogul while concurrently expanding more unstable because of extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The much but brief advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis constructed by New Offer Studios are on display at the Evergreen Aeronautics Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse at risking his life in other methods, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

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