In 2004, the movie "Aviator" starring Xiao Lizi was released in the United States, and the whole story took the protagonist's pursuit of the pilot's dream as the starting point, showing the narrative from the two clues of career and marriage, thus describing his history of struggle and the romance of many legendary actresses in Hollywood.
And today we are going to talk about the prototype of the film's owner - the American super rich Howard Hughes.
Born in the United States in 1905, Hughes's father was an oil tycoon and Harvard high school student, and he did not make money in the oil business in his early years, and later, he bought a new type of drilling machinery from a friend. It has great significance for the oil extraction industry. To this end, he obtained patents from 13 countries in the United States of America and abroad, established the "Hughes Tools Company", specialized in the production of such drilling rigs, and obtained huge profits.
Influenced by his family environment, Hughes loved to delve into various things from an early age. He assembled houston's first radio station at the age of 11; invented a moped at the age of 12; assembled a motorcycle at the age of 13; and began flying airplanes at the age of 14.
Hughes' peaceful life was broken at the age of 18, and his parents died in an accident. Unsupervised Hughes even interrupted his studies and started his "rich second generation life".
As in many movie plots, Hughes, after inheriting a huge fortune, casually sold several cars and bought too many properties to remember, so that he was affectionately called "the walking printing machine" by the media.
Because of her handsomeness and gold, most of the people around her are Hollywood actresses, such as: Catherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor... According to Hughes himself, he had more than 80 simultaneous girlfriends at his peak.
But don't think that Hughes will only spend money, his earning power is also obvious to all.
Hughes spent nearly $4 million on the film "Hell's Angels," the most expensive film to produce at the time, of which $700,000 was used to buy 87 planes, $500,000 was used to organize a group of pilots with combat experience in World War I to participate in filming, $400,000 was used to build an airport, and $300,000 was used to build a background... The filming process of the film is full of dangers, 3 pilots unfortunately died, Hughes himself flew a fighter plane to participate in the filming, because the plane crashed, seriously injured. In 1930, the film was released in the United States and reached $8 million at the box office, Hughes made a net profit of $4 million, the film was nominated for best cinematography at the 3rd Academy Awards, and Hughes also won the Academy Award for Best Director.
However, the film's success doesn't satisfy Hughes. He set his sights on the sky again.
In 1950, Hughes founded his own flying company and began to develop new aircraft. Although many people were not optimistic at the time, Howard did not believe in evil, and there was nothing in the world that he could not do. To this end, Hughes spent a lot of money to develop aircraft, and he also went to the University of California to conduct dozens of wind tunnel tests, developing many breakthrough technologies to reduce air resistance. In the end, when the first test flight of the "Hughes I", it directly broke the world record for the speed of the aircraft at that time, with a speed of up to 567.1 mm per hour.
After great success in aviation, he turned his attention to higher space.
In 1965, Hughes Aircraft Company developed the world's first commercial communication satellite "Early Bird", weighing 38 kilograms, with 6,000 lines of round-trip telephone function and 12 color TV channels, opening up tv and telephone communications connecting Europe and the United States.
In 1966, an unmanned spacecraft built by Hughes Aircraft landed on the surface of the moon, laying the foundation for future human landing on the moon. As a result, Howard Hughes has been called "the forerunner of aerospace in the United States and around the world throughout the 20th century."
In the late 1950s, Hughes began to live in seclusion, moving in 1958 to a desert near the intellectual capital, São Lyagó. Hughes died on a plane back to Los Angeles from Mexico on April 5, 1976, a flying genius who died in flight. And because he has no children, there have been a lot of lawsuits over the two billion dollar estate behind him.
Throughout Howard Hughes's legendary life, some say he's a genius, while others say he's a paranoid lunatic. And the giants who really changed the world must be unique. To paraphrase Mr. Hughes's own phrase, once you agree to a compromise, you can no longer get rid of that compromise and restore things to what you really want them to be.