Flying. More flying. Still more flying...And who knows? Maybe someday before the apocalypse, I might even get a pilot's liscence and do real flying, not just the flight simulator kind...
Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, USAF (ret.)...Greatest. Pilot. EVER!Neil Armstrong, Commander, Apollo 11...first man to set foot on the Moon.
Too varied to list...soundtracks, classical, jazz, swing/big band, rock...whatever strikes my fancy I'll listen to:(Checks his Dell DJ) Glen Miller, Aerosmith, Elton John's "Rocket Man" (yeah, yeah, I know, I'm missing the deeper meaning, but what do you expect of an aerospace geek?), Billy Joel...some Metallica, Nirvana, and ACDC...Bach, Ellington...the soundtracks of the London Metropolitan Orchestra, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, and especially John Williams...John Phillip Sousa, Richard Wagner, Russel Watson's intro from "Enterprise" was pretty good, the Beatles, Van Halen, etc.Except one thing: Sinatra is the overlord of music. Always.
In no particular order: Top Gun, Flight of the Navigator, The Rocketeer, The Aviator, Final Countdown, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek, Disney stuff, The Mummy/The Mummy Returns, Airplane!/-2, Jurassic Park 1-3, The Patriot, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Peal Harbor, Tora Tora Tora, Gladiator, The Battle of Britain, The Sum of All Fears, James Bond, Midway, Walk the Line, The Flying Tigers, The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan, etc.
Enterprise (rest in peace :( ), JAG, Simpsons, Malcolm, Band of Brothers, From the Earth to the Moon, Seinfeld, anything on History Channel or Discovery Wings.
Same as everything else: aviation, space, science fiction, etc.
Those from the Greatest Generation, who saved this country and the world. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan. Pilots, astronauts, those in the armed services especially those "who have given the last full measure of devotion." (Lincoln) & my high school classmates whose service I honor and envy, Jared (USN) and Bernie (USMC).