Actually, the A400M will be the "Bristol Bureaucrat"....
The Air Marshals actually wanted to call the Hawk the 'Tercel'. A sort of baby ****ehawk.
TypHoon could have been "Cyclone". But that didn't translate terribly well into German, particularly for the two-seater, or B model.....
"Hmm.
Eurofighter Zyklon B. Don't think we'll be selling many of those to certain countries..."
As for PFI, the RAAF decided against it for their A330MRTTs. Rumour hath it that they consider 'PFI' to stand for 'Poms are Flaming Idiots'...
