{"id":57341,"date":"2024-06-01T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a340-600-length-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:00:13","slug":"flying-pencil-how-long-is-the-airbus-a340-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=57341","title":{"rendered":"Flying Pencil: How Long Is The Airbus A340-600?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The Airbus A340 is one of the oldest widebody airlines still in service. Several variants of the A340 quad-jet fly with popular airlines, mainly with the European legacy carriers. The longest variant of the family, the A340-600, was the second-most delivered of the A340 variants and the longest airliner until the Boeing 747-8 was launched. While the type is on the decline due to its four engines, we look at the notable design characteristics of what is known as a flying pencil, most notably its length.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quadjet is conspicuous for its long, thin design.<\/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":[2853,426,789,396,397,4818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a340-600","category-airbus","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-quadjet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57341","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=57341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57342,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57341\/revisions\/57342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}