Definition of "loadmaster" []

• An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "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."