{"id":409834,"date":"2026-04-21T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-the-airbus-a340-has-4-engines\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:30:18","slug":"why-did-airbus-build-the-a340-with-4-engines-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=409834","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Airbus Build The A340 With 4 Engines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256457\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Airbus A340<\/span><\/span> is one of the most iconic jets ever produced by Airbus, and it is a long-range wide-body quad-engine passenger airliner that was originally developed alongside the twin-engine Airbus A330 in the 1980s. First launched commercially in June 1987, the Airbus A340-300, the first model to take to the skies, performed its first test flight on October 25th, 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This famous quadjet was designed in the late 1980s.<\/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":[426,789,396,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409834","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=409834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409835,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409834\/revisions\/409835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}