{"id":232131,"date":"2025-06-09T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-boeing-737-max-large-engines\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:31:16","slug":"why-the-boeing-737-max-has-such-large-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=232131","title":{"rendered":"Why The Boeing 737 MAX Has Such Large Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"177620\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-737-max\/\"  >Boeing 737 MAX<\/a><\/span> now, one can&#8217;t help but notice its large engines. Like other 737 variants, these<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2042854\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-737-flat-bottomed-engines-why\/\" >have been given flattened bottoms to ensure they have sufficient ground clearance<\/a><\/span>. But the 737 was not designed for such large engines. The aircraft was designed in the 1960s, drawing from the older <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739594\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 707<\/span><\/span> fuselage dimensions as a smaller and more versatile aircraft. It was originally designed for the comparatively small Pratt &#038; Whitney JT8D-15A turbofan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 737 was designed for smaller engines, but today it is equipped with modern large-diameter narrowbody turbofan engines.<\/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":[396,422,718,4168,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-max","category-boeing-max","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232131","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=232131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232132,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232131\/revisions\/232132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}