How many horsepower is a Boeing 747 Jet?

If you're talking about the 747- 8, Introduced in 2008 - The latest of the 747 Line. You're talking about the General Electric's GEnx Engines, No the 1b used on the 787, but the 2b. Each engine produces 66500 pounds of thrust on take off. It is not really possible to directly compare thrust to horsepower. read more

One horsepower equals 33,000 lb-ft of work per minute. So the simple division 3,158,416,800/33,000 gives us 95,710 HP for the equivalent horsepower to move a 747–400 at cruising speed. 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. read more

The Boeing 747-400 series have a PW4000 turbofan engine aircraft. Each 747 carries 4 of them; 2 on each wing. read more

Compare that to today's beastly mode of transport: the Boeing 777. Bangalore Aviation points out that a single GE90-115B engine puts out over 110,000 horsepower, or more than twice the design output of all the Titanic's steam engines. read more