Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons.
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- noun military The member of an
aircrew responsible for theloading and internalstowage of heavycargo (so as to minimise the disruption of the aircraft's trim)
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Examples
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While Mastracchio and Anderson focused on the spacewalk activities, Japanese astronaut and "loadmaster" Naoko Yamazaki will continue overseeing the transfer of supplies, equipment and experiments from the Leonardo logistics module that Discovery launched and temporarily attached to the station.
SPACE.com 2010
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The loadmaster was swigging vodka from a bottle as the aircraft nosedived towards the tarmac at an impossible angle, and with the few seconds I had left, I prepared myself to die surrounded by madmen and drunks.
Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011
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I figured I had a better than passing chance since I work as a loadmaster for Virgin, but Allison got selected, not me.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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He always wanted to fly, so he joined the United States Air Force shortly after graduating high school and he became loadmaster on a C-130.
Adam, John Q. 2009
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The loadmaster was swigging vodka from a bottle as the aircraft nosedived towards the tarmac at an impossible angle, and with the few seconds I had left, I prepared myself to die surrounded by madmen and drunks.
Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011
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After climbing above Bagram, the C-130 loadmaster gave the OK to unfasten our seat belts and to reposition if we desired.
A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010
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Air Force Tech Sgt. Donny Maheux, a C-17 loadmaster, says he often finds himself staring at the metallic transfer cases holding the bodies of the dead soldiers and wondering what kind of people they were.
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The navigator operated a 13 mm machine gun in the nose, the radio operator a 20 mm gun in a rotating turret on the roof, and the loadmaster—now deceased—another 13 mm gun from above the cargo bay at the rear ramp.
The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010
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He served as a loadmaster in Afghanistan, which means he was involved in transporting detainees.
dale landry federal court appeal hearing, a campaigner's perspective 2009
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Each Herc carries a crew of five—2 pilots, 1 navigator, 1 flight engineer, and 1 loadmaster.
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