Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation leader and supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became a successful movie producer and an aeronautics mogul while concurrently expanding extra unpredictable as a result of serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The short however much advertised trip 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 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 hardly averse in danger his life in other methods, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground a lot 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 mins, The aviator mastercard annual fee tries to stay up, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this motion picture big can maintain itself airborne just a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Aviator photos: Miramax Detector Bros