{"id":230325,"date":"2025-06-06T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-747-8-long-fuselage\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:01:17","slug":"why-the-boeing-747-8-has-such-a-long-fuselage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=230325","title":{"rendered":"Why The Boeing 747-8 Has Such A Long Fuselage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739375\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/747-8\/\"  >Boeing 747-8<\/a><\/span> is currently the world&#8217;s longest commercial jet in history with a fuselage measuring 250 ft 2 in (76.25 m), eclipsing the Airbus A340, which was 247 feet (75.30 meters) long. The 747-8 was the newest and final series in the Boeing 747 program, consisting of freighter (747-8F) and passenger (747-8i) variants. One of the boldest decisions Boeing took during the 747-8s development was to incorporate a stretch on the latest in the 747 family &#8211; the 747-400 &#8211; adding more than five meters to the plane&#8217;s fuselage to make it the longest passenger jet in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing needed as much passenger capacity as possible to challenge the A380.<\/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":[396,398,399,876,3744,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-boeing-747-8","category-fuselage","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230325","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=230325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230326,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230325\/revisions\/230326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}