Mossad stole drawings of the Mirage to further develop their (IDF's) Kfir, also based on an earlier version of the Mirage.

If your regional is better than others, you don't use FAA/ICAO terms such as "MEL" stickers for deferrals.

Back to the aircraft:

15K thrust is on par with the old DC-9 engines..

Does it have leading edge devices???

Ill bet it taxiis like a drifting car...the only aircraft in the world that take turns at 90 knots on slick pavement :p

Whatever China....we'll never see this thing here

Does the DC-9? You'd think I'd know that after building the DC-9 in Long Beach for Douglas, but I honestly don't remember. Obviously, the Super 80 series does.

I know the DC-9-30 does. The -10 does not. I'm not sure if there are any variations between the -10 and -30 that may or may not have them.