The Giant Engines

Airlines

The Giant Engines of the Boeing 777 and an Iconic British Airways Photo

When British Airways introduced its first Boeing 777-200 into the fleet, the airline emphasized the aircraft’s extraordinarily large engines. At the time, the Boeing 777 stood out for featuring the biggest turbofan engines ever built — the GE90s — which staff jokingly described as “almost the size of an aircraft themselves.” To visually demonstrate the scale of the engines, the…