The Aviator 2004 .

Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and director of the movie Hell's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective film producer and an air travel tycoon while at the same time growing extra unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The short yet much heralded trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, aviator nation sweatshirt sizing was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis built by New Offer Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in other means, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later 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.

The filmmakers needed to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions as well as the time duration, given that when Hughes was suffering from the disorder, there was no psychiatric interpretation for what troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive evaluations with movie critics praising Scorsese's direction, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.