{"id":393730,"date":"2026-03-26T03:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-did-antonov-construct-an-225-6-engines\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:31:19","slug":"why-did-antonov-construct-the-an-225-with-6-engines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=393730","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, and, now, all subsonic passenger jets are designed with just two engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A closer look at one of the coolest quirks of a legendary aircraft.<\/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":[396,596,5932,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-antonov","category-antonov-an-225","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393730","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=393730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393731,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393730\/revisions\/393731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}