Matlins is the author of Diamonds: The Antoinette Matlins Buying Guide and Engagement & Wedding Rings: The Definitive Buying Guide for People in Love among other titles.
The Russian Tu-95MC strategic bomber is the worldâs fastest turboprop aircraft. These are the Russian planes reported to have flown into US air space near California in recent news. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/06/us-usa-russia-asiapac-idUSBREA4501M20140506. Supplies, Russian Equipment.
XA2D Skyshark 500 mph+. The world's fastest single engine turboprop. Flew from 1950 to 1954. Fastest Aircraft of the 1940's: Grumman F9F Panther 575 mph. It was Grumman's first production jet fighter, deployed from 1949 to 1958. MiG-15 670 mph. It was the fastest Soviet military fighter aircraft of the Korean War and was deployed from 1949 to 1969.