Cybermonkey
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Was a truly great film, best i seen in a long time, tis long, about 3 hours, but such an interesting story about Howard Hughes. The guy was a fruitcake, but DiCaprio did a great job, really good actor IMO. Anyways, the film was very accurate, and was really thrilling to watch at a lot of parts!
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Simon
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i liked it too
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Bart
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looks p00p in the trailers
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Ojc
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What is it about?
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SetH
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Unless you have a serious interest in aviation in the 30`s & 40`s I would not reccomend seeing it. One of my friends whom is a pilot loved it, for obvious reasons. Its very long and drawn out and action sequences are few and short. But like cybermonkey said a very good performance from di-caprio.
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Ojc
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Is there no mention of Reginald Joseph Mitchell in this film?
Oh of course not its a American movie why should they mention the designer of the greatest fighter of that period.
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Mad Moe
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Originally posted by Ojc
Is there no mention of Reginald Joseph Mitchell in this film?
Oh of course not its a American movie why should they mention the designer of the greatest fighter of that period.
Why would they? It's an autobiographical film of Howard Hughes who designed the fastest plane of that period
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Ojc
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Please continue...
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Mad Moe
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Here's a brief Bio I pinched of him:
'Millionaire businessman, film producer, film director, and aviator, born in Houston, TX. He studied at the prestigious Rice University the prestigious California Institute of Technology, inheriting his father's machine tool company in 1923. In 1926 he ventured into films, producing Hell's Angels (1930), Scarface (1932), and The Outlaw (1941). He also founded his own aircraft company, designing, building, and flying aircraft, and broke several world air speed records (1935--8). His most famous aircraft, the "Spruce Goose" (nickname), was an oversized wooden sea-plane designed to carry 750 passengers, which was completed in 1947, but flew only once over a distance of one mile. Throughout his life he shunned publicity, eventually becoming a recluse while still controlling his vast business interests from sealed-off hotel suites, and giving rise to endless rumour and speculation. In 1971 an "authorized' biography was announced, but the authors were imprisoned for fraud, and the mystery surrounding him continued until his death.'
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Ojc
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So where is this plane that broke records?
I doubt a sea plane in 1947 would be breaking records with the introduction of pulse jet engines in 44-45 cable of just under mach 1.
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Jambo
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indeed. I would have throught the ME262 would have been fastest 
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Ojc
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Or the British Gloster Meteor which was in service at the end of WW2.
Or even the P80 Shooting Star.
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Mad Moe
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Give me a chance I am still looking for it's name, but if you read the Bio it states his speed records were between 1935-38
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Jambo
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What was the plane that got the fastest record~?
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Ojc
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After 38 it would have been the Supermarine Spitfire. Designed by Reginald Mitchell powered by a V12 Rolls Royce Merlin engine built and produced in the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Jambo
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mustang was faster than a spitfire tho? As was a thunderbolt IIRC
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Ojc
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The Mustang and the Thunderbolt were built during the war, not before.
And the Mk5 Supermarine Spitfire was faster than the Mustang and Thunderbolt.
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Cybermonkey
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Oliver, we are talking much time before WW2.
"In 1934 he won his first speed title flying a converted Boeing pursuit plane 185 miles per hour. He and a young Caltech engineer, Dick Palmer, then built a plane called the H-1 (featuring a unique retractable landing gear) which Hughes piloted to a new speed record of 352 mph near Santa Ana, Calif. This was in 1935, the year that Hughes founded Hughes Aircraft Company as a division within Hughes Tool Company, operating out of a hangar in Burbank, Calif."
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Cybermonkey
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basically, he took the biplane Boeing, scrapped the top wing because of vibrations from the massive P&W Wasp Radial, turned it into a monoplane design, and made every single part of it as flush and smooth as possible, until it was like glass.
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MarkM
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I liked this film...its not your typical gun ho shite u see at the pics...
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