{"id":169151,"date":"2025-01-23T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airbus-build-a340-4-engines\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:00:15","slug":"why-did-airbus-build-the-a340-with-4-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=169151","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Airbus Build The A340 With 4 Engines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256457\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A340<\/span><\/span> is one of the most iconic jets ever produced by Airbus, and it is a long-range wide-body quad-engine passenger airliner that was originally developed alongside the twin-engine Airbus A330 in the 1980s. First launched commercially in June 1987, the Airbus A340-300, the first model to take to the skies, performed its first test flight on October 25th, 1991. The first two variants to enter service, the A340-200 and the A340-300, both made their first passenger flights in 1993 with Lufthansa and Air France. The aircraft was later upgraded with two larger, longer-range variants, the Airbus A340-500 and the Airbus A340-600, which entered service in 1997 and 2002, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft was designed in the late 1980s.<\/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":[426,789,396,13240,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169151","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=169151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169152,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169151\/revisions\/169152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}