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Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and director of the film Heck's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended up being an effective film manufacturer and an aviation tycoon while all at once expanding more unsteady as a result of extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The short yet much advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures built by New Deal Studios get on display screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is barely 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 discouragement 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.

Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can keep itself airborne just a couple of minutes at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation sweatshirt purple pictures: Miramax Warner Bros