In his Shell role Sir Douglas Bader chauffeured himself around Europe in a Miles Gemini (rather like a twin-motored Messenger) and made his mark on ATC at Sydenham, now Belfast City Airport but in the 1940s shared by Shorts and the Royal Navy.
An old friend who was a junior controller at the time recalled that the great man was cleared to land on the main runway 23, which had a strong crosswind. A mile or so out he veered north and performed a slipping turn into the very short northerly runway which had been closed since war's end.
When ATC remonstrated with the great man, he responded that HE was the ----- pilot and HE would decide which ------ runway direction was appropriate for landing.