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Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the film Heck's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an aeronautics mogul while simultaneously expanding more unsteady as a result of extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The short yet much proclaimed flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage miniatures constructed by New Bargain Studios are on display at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in other means, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The aviator nation zip up with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Aviator tries to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can keep itself airborne only a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator pictures: Miramax Warner Bros