{"id":235676,"date":"2025-06-15T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-boeing-777x-large-engines\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T23:00:16","slug":"why-the-boeing-777x-has-such-large-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=235676","title":{"rendered":"Why The Boeing 777X Has Such Large Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254875\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-777x\/\"  >Boeing 777X<\/a><\/span> is the newest aircraft to be developed by Boeing with a planned entry to service in 2026 with launch customer Lufthansa. The huge twinjet is the longest commercial jet ever built with a staggering length of 251 ft 9 in (76.73 m) for the 777-9, making it even longer than the Boeing 747-8 or Airbus A380. With a capacity for upwards of 425 passengers (395 on the 777-8), the widebody will be powered by two General Electric GE9X engines, the world&#8217;s largest jet engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GE9X will be wider than a Boeing 737 fuselage.<\/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":[396,398,669,1591,5559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-777x","category-engine","category-general-electric-ge9x"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235676","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=235676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235677,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235676\/revisions\/235677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}