The Quiz: “The Aviator” (2004) is based on what real-life aviation big shot?
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Howard Hughes
Chuck Yeager
In addition to being a business magnate, film director, and billionaire, Howard Hughes was an impressive pilot and aviation enthusiast. The Hughes Aircraft Company he founded built the massive Spruce Goose transport airplane, and although it was completed too late to be used during World War II, Hughes flew the plane on its first — and only — flight in 1947. Leonardo DiCaprio played the eccentric mogul in the 2004 biopic “The Aviator,” which followed Hughes’ rise and eventual fall.
The correct answer to this quiz is Howard Hughes.