What was missed, however small, was significant

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2005)

The movie was awesome, fast tracked with energy oozing from the pores of Howard Hughes, and Katherine Hepburn role was an Oscar performance. But, a grand opportunity failed to appear, that being any of the women of the 1929 Air Race. The only movie cameo was Roscoe Turner with his pet lion. But then...I have written "Amelia's Voice" about that race and it will blow the screen away soon. There is another chance to see Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and Howard Huges, not in the NOW, but in time travel into the past. What the movie did touch upon was the early years after WWI and how pilots traded in their military records for stunt flying and barnstorming. My only wish was that The Aviator had had more about the fliers of that age.