Illustration created in 2005 for “CINE PREMIERE” magazine in Mexico, about the release on DVD of the Martin Scorsese film "The Aviator", about the history and career of legendary director and aviator Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. ( info: [link] )

Howard Hughes (24 December 1905 – 5 April 1976), was also an American engineer, industrialist and film producer, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He is famous for setting multiple world air-speed records, building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules airplanes, producing the movies Hell's Angels and The Outlaw, as well as owning and expanding Trans World Airlines.

This movie was Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and winning five, the acclaimed film takes the usual bio-pic liberties (Ella Rice is not seen or mentioned although Hughes was married to her during the making of Hell's Angels). The film focuses primarily on Hughes' achievements in aviation and in the movies and on the increasing handicaps imposed on him by his obsessive-compulsive behavior.