{"id":355202,"date":"2026-01-25T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-cant-boeing-747-8-powered-any-other-engine-type\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:01:20","slug":"why-cant-the-boeing-747-8-be-powered-by-any-other-engine-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=355202","title":{"rendered":"Why Can\u2019t The Boeing 747-8 Be Powered By Any Other Engine Type?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking from the variants that came before it, 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 exclusively powered by the General Electric GEnx-2B turbofan, a close relative of the GE engine powering the popular Boeing 787 Dreamliner. To make the 747-8 economically feasible, especially important after what turned out to be disappointing sales,<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2049591\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/true-boeing-747-8-787-dreamliner-powered-same-engine\/\" >Boeing leaned on its 787 program and General Electric (now GE Aerospace)<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final jumbo jet is exclusively powered by GEnx-2B engines, and was not built for Rolls-Royce or Pratt &amp; Whitney turbofans.<\/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":[396,398,399,876,12010,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-747","category-boeing-747-8","category-general-electric-genx","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355202","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=355202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355204,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355202\/revisions\/355204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}