Based on the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective movie manufacturer and an aeronautics mogul while simultaneously expanding extra unpredictable because of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The short however much proclaimed flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Beach The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage miniatures constructed by New Deal Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
Besides, Bookmarks Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in other methods, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of rival Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
Appearing at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture jumbo can keep itself airborne just a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot photos: Miramax Detector Bros