OK, so the zero gave us a pretty good run for our money in WW2. But post WW2 you don't hear much about mitsubishi aircraft other than a lot of MU-2 crashes. Maybe it's unfair that the MU-2 got a bad wrap, but the thing is a death trap when pilots are flying it without special training and currency requirements that other small turbo props simply do not have. The MRJ is the first jet, and fist plane in decades.