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loadmaster

n. (context military English) The member of an aircrew responsible for the loading and internal stowage of heavy cargo (so as to minimise the disruption of the aircraft's trim)

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Loadmaster

A loadmaster is an aircrew member on civilian aircraft or military transport aircraft tasked with the safe loading, transport and unloading of aerial cargoes. Loadmasters serve in the militaries and civilian airlines of many nations.

Usage examples of "loadmaster".

The loadmaster and six airmen immediately went to work, snaking steel cables to eyebolts on the track and trailer to secure the heavy load.

The loadmaster saw to it that his ground crewmen were properly at work before walking over to the pilot.

He wore an expression of arrogance the loadmaster hated, but money was money.

The loadmaster paused only momentarily to consider the bother of being ten or more minutes late getting the cargo off the spacecraft for the auction.

The loadmaster continued ticking off the procedures for this, her endless personal days in hell.

The loadmaster droned on while consulting his digital clipboard now and again for what Hannah guessed was clarity in this barbaric system.

Neither loadmaster, Dusty the older one nor Buck the younger one, had been able to revive the girl in the first pod.

All of a sudden the loadmaster held up two fingers, and everybody was banging the next man and showing two fingers.

Age seventy-four, sex male, loadmaster, expression worried, no chemscent of aggression.

The loadmaster came out of the cabin into the big hold, and motioned to Murdock.

The only person to come back and forth is the loadmaster, Alexander Karas.

Eventually there was nobody standing on the desert plain but him, the Duros loadmaster, and half a dozen clone troopers.

Darman, acting as loadmaster, gave him a helpful leg up and eyed the blaster.

In conjunction with the WRAP Air Loadmaster, Brooke and another marine officer were checking the manifest of the equipment the aircraft had brought from Scampton.

Waterford thought he glimpsed the figures bundling them out, even the supervising Air Loadmaster at the mouth of the hard-lit tunnel that was the interior of the Hercules.