{"id":358547,"date":"2026-01-30T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-powerful-airbus-a380-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:30:18","slug":"this-is-how-powerful-the-airbus-a380-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=358547","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Powerful The Airbus A380 Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> A380 is the world&#8217;s largest commercial jet equipped with four engines that give the superjumbo some impressive performance capabilities. The A380&#8217;s two engine options &#8211; the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"726132\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Engine Alliance GP7000<\/span><\/span> or <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"726131\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Rolls-Royce Trent 900<\/span><\/span> &#8211; can deliver around 75,000 pounds of thrust (lbf) per engine to power the huge 72.72-meter-long widebody. The Trent 900 engine had been in the works for a proposed Boeing 747 variant but switched over to the A380 program, while Engine Alliance was a 50\/50 joint venture setup for the same reason between leading enginemakers GE Aerospace and Pratt &#038; Whitney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four-engined giant remains the most powerful commercial jet in history.<\/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":[426,898,396,1776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-quadjets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358547","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=358547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358548,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358547\/revisions\/358548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}