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Based upon 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 film Heck's Angels The movie portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became a successful film manufacturer and an air travel mogul while simultaneously expanding more unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

The short however much advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was genuinely recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures constructed by New Bargain Studios are on display screen at the Evergreen Air Travel Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is hardly averse in jeopardy his life in other means, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later getting TWA off the ground much to the dismay 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.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, Bookmarks The Aviator tries to remain 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 only a few minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Warner Bros