{"id":113441,"date":"2024-08-23T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-b-52-needs-8-engines\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T12:00:12","slug":"why-does-the-b-52-need-8-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=113441","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The B-52 Need 8 Engines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Today, all commercial passenger airliners have only two engines (the B-747 and Airbus A380 are out of production), so why does the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-52\/\">B-52 Stratofortress<\/a> not have four, not six, but eight engines? While there are many <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-ww2-6-engine-aircraft\/\">examples of six-engine aircraft (including those from WW2 times)<\/a>, there are few examples of military aircraft with eight jet engines. With the B-52Hs about to be upgraded to the B-52J, the B-52 will continue to be <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-main-bomber-aircraft\/\">the backbone of the US strategic bomber fleet<\/a> and will continue to be the only example of a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force<\/a> eight-engined jet aircraft for many years to come.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-52 dates from a time when it needed eight engines and now it is easier to roll with its existing eight-engine design than reduce it to four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2038,1591,408,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-engine","category-history","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113442,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113441\/revisions\/113442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}