See The Aviator.

Hepburn wearies of Hughes' eccentricity and workaholism, and leaves him for fellow actor Spencer Tracy Hughes promptly locates a brand-new love interest with 15-year-old Belief Domergue, and later on actress Ava Gardner Nonetheless, he still has feelings for Hepburn, and allurements a press reporter to maintain reports concerning her and Aviator nation Zip up the married Tracy out of journalism.

The much but brief declared trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Beach The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures developed by New Offer Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse at risking his life in other means, becoming a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of rival 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 minutes, The Pilot attempts to stay aloft, 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 in the air only a few mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Warner Bros