Horsepower of a Boeing 747: The engines of the Boeing 747 can produce up to 239,736 horsepower of power collectively. This is the total power of all four engines of a Boeing 747. The most powerful engines were installed in the Boeing 747 in the world. These are the same kind of engines that were used in the Boeing 777.
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What is the horsepower of a Boeing 747?
Horsepower of a Boeing 747: The first model had (4) Pratt & Whitney JT9A engines with 43,500 lbs / 193 kiloNewtons of thrust rated at take off.
The engines of Boeing 747 can produce up to 239,736 horsepower of power collectively. This is the total power of all four engines of a Boeing 747. The most power full engines were installed in the Boeing 747 in the world. These are the same kind of engines that were used in the Boeing 777.
The latest 747–8 comes with only one engine choice, (4) General Electric GEnx-2B67B rated at 66,500 lbs / 296 kiloNewtons of thrust at takeoff. I believe this the most powerful engine ever fitted to a 747, but the same basic engines produce more thrust in the Boeing 787.
Other models of the Boeing 747
Horsepower of a Boeing 747: Other models of the Boeing 747 have different engines. I’ll give you the data and leave to you to do the same calculations for them.
- 747-100B : Thrust: 46,500 lbf Cruising speed: 555 mph
- 747-200B : Thrust: 54,750 lbf Cruising speed: 555 mph
- 747-300 : Thrust: 54,750 lbf Cruising speed: 555 mph
- 747-8I : Thrust: 66,500 lbf Cruising speed: 570 mph
NOTE:- These values are for the Pratt & Whitney engine. The airplane can have different engines: General Electric, and Rolls-Royce.
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Which is safer – an A380 or a Boeing 747?
The immediate answer is also a misleading answer: the A380 is, by far, statistically, the safer airplane.
But hold on. That’s far from the whole story.
For starters, the 747 is an aircraft type first designed and flown in the 1960s.
The first 747 rolled out to the public in September 1968. The world had never seen an airliner like this.
At the time, the state-of-the-art airliner was this, the 707.
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April 14, 1966Pan Am places the first order for the forthcoming Boeing 747. pic.twitter.com/mL6BJq7pxZ
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Horsepower of a Boeing 747: The 747 type has been flying for almost a half-century. By comparison, the A380 was largely designed in the late 1990s and first flew in 2005. Its design benefited from at least an additional 35 years of aircraft R&D advances in design and construction. On this basis alone, one would naturally expect the A380 to be safer.
On the other hand, Boeing constantly updated the 747 design, incrementally incorporating new design and manufacturing technologies to each new model of the 747 offered for commercial flight, up to and including the 747–8 which first flew in 2010. A total of 1,536 Boeing 747s have been delivered over the lifespan of the type, compared to just 216 A380s delivered so far (Sept, 2017).
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