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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective film producer and an aviation mogul while simultaneously growing much more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The much however brief advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis developed by New Deal Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in other means, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground much to the dismay of rival 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 Aviator attempts to stay up, Bookmarks 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 minutes at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros