Alex Henshaw
When Alex was in Australia in 1998 he gave an hour long radio interview. Talking with him was Margaret Throsby, whose program, Margaret Throsby's Guest, is still going. (A check of the ABC website and a search for radio tape sales might strike oil.)
At one point when Alex was saying how potent was the Luftwaffe, Margaret Throsby came out with the monumental gaffe, "Oh, did the Germans have Spitfires and Hurricanes too?" Alex, ever the gentleman and never the belittler, replied mildly, "No, no; only the RAF and our allies." (A repeat of that interview some years later had the gaffe deleted.)
She also asked him about his feelings in the Mew Gull, southbound to the Cape, to do with the astonishing cloudscape that greeted him with daylight over North Africa. "I'd think your soul would have been filled with the most beautiful, inspiring thoughts." "Not at all. Not at all. My mind was entirely on the job in hand."
As a Chilean reporter filming from a C310 over the Straits of Magellan said about the latter day Sir Francis as he tacked powerfully through in Gypsy Moth IV :
"QUE HOMBRE!"