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Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the film Hell's Angels The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became an effective movie producer and an aeronautics magnate while simultaneously growing extra unstable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

The short but much advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures built by New Deal Studios are on display 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 various other methods, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on getting TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself airborne only a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator mastercard customer service images: Miramax Detector Bros