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 leader and supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became an effective film manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously growing extra unpredictable because of extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The much yet brief proclaimed trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage miniatures constructed by New Offer Studios get on display at the Evergreen Air Travel Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in other ways, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Aviator with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot attempts to stay aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-heavy and Bookmarks much-too-big Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can keep itself airborne just a couple of minutes each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Warner Bros