{"id":370540,"date":"2026-02-17T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-boeing-787-engines-chevrons-777xs-dont\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:00:17","slug":"why-do-the-boeing-787s-engines-have-chevrons-the-777xs-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370540","title":{"rendered":"Why Do The Boeing 787\u2019s Engines Have Chevrons &amp; The 777X\u2019s Don\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When 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> Jumbo and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254963\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>787 Dreamliner<\/span><\/span> entered service in 2012 and 2015, respectively, engine nacelle chevrons appeared to be a technology of the future. It was one of the technologies that made the Dreamliner an innovative next-generation airliner, taking noise reduction to a new level. But 20 years later, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2047180\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delayed-again-boeing-777x-delivery-timeline-push-back-2027\/\" >the Boeing 777X is soon to enter service without them<\/a><\/span>. It is an example of what appeared to be a future technology, but turned out to be more of a false start for the industry at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How chevrons worked with the setting and technologies of the 2000s, but haven&#8217;t worked since and might not work in the future.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-777x"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370540","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=370540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370541,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370540\/revisions\/370541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}