Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being an effective movie manufacturer and an aeronautics magnate while concurrently growing extra unsteady due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The short however much proclaimed trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Beach The activity control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis constructed by New Offer Studios are on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in danger his life in various other ways, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing 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 mins, The Pilot tries to stay up, but 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 each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator nation hat photos: Miramax Warner Bros