{"id":326737,"date":"2025-12-02T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airbus-a220-sound-whale\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:00:14","slug":"why-in-the-world-does-the-airbus-a220-sound-like-a-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=326737","title":{"rendered":"Why In The World Does The Airbus A220 Sound Like A Whale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation enthusiasts can tell if it&#8217;s an <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525470\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A220<\/span><\/span> taking off just by the distinctive sound it makes. This howling sound is sometimes described as sounding something like a whale, and is indirectly related to its Pratt &#038; Whitney PW1500G geared turbofan. Variants of the PW GTF also power the Embraer E-Jet E2 series and some of the Airbus A320neos, but those aircraft do not have the same degree of howling sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A220&#8217;s distinctive sound is likened to that of an orca and has no bearing on the aircraft&#8217;s safety.<\/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":[426,434,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a220","category-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326737","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=326737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326738,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326737\/revisions\/326738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}