{"id":304260,"date":"2025-10-20T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-antonov-construct-an-225-6-engines\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:30:17","slug":"why-did-antonov-construct-the-an-225-with-6-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=304260","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Antonov Construct The An-225 With 6 Engines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Antonov An-225 was the largest aircraft in the world and came with six engines. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031274\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-b-52-needs-8-engines\/\" >United States designed the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress in the 1950s with a whopping eight engines<\/a><\/span>. But the 1950s were a time when jet engines were still in their infancy and were underpowered and unreliable. By the 1960s, Boeing and Lockheed designed the Boeing 747 and C-5 Galaxy, respectively, with just four engines. Now, all subsonic passenger jets are designed with just two engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what to know about why the Soviets built the An-225 with six 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":[396,596,5932,1591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-antonov","category-antonov-an-225","category-engine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304260","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=304260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304261,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304260\/revisions\/304261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}