Lazy Labels.
The Royal Australian Air Force ordered the F-111 in the 1960s but delivery took years after it suffered a series of accidents.
Subsequent reporting on the aircraft insisted on calling it ‘The ‘Controversial F111’.
It’s fighter brother, the Mirage, was referred to as ‘The Aging Mirage’.
The B-52 Stratofortress entered service in the United States Air Force in 1955 and is still flying - 70 years later.
Labels.
‘Firebrand’
‘Radical’
‘Ageing’.
Lazy.