{"id":210912,"date":"2025-05-05T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-737-flat-bottomed-engines-why\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:00:16","slug":"why-boeings-737s-have-flat-bottomed-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=210912","title":{"rendered":"Why Boeing&#8217;s 737s Have Flat-Bottomed Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way to tell         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254988\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737<\/span><\/span> family aircraft from their Airbus A320 family counterparts is that 737s have a distinctive flat-bottomed engine. But why? The Boeing 737 was designed at a time when engines were smaller and aircraft still needed to serve airports with relatively short runways and sometimes limited terminal infrastructure. Boeing also leveraged its older 727 design. Consequently, the aircraft was built with comparatively shorter landing gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 737 aircraft has flat-bottomed engines as they were designed to have smaller engines and have short landing gear.<\/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":[396,422,525,13240,1591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-737","category-cfm-international","category-commercial-aviation","category-engine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210912","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=210912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210913,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210912\/revisions\/210913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}