How to Use loadmaster in a Sentence

loadmaster

noun
  • Johnson was a loadmaster, helping to manage the cargo in the back of the planes.
    Paul Leblanc and Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 13 July 2017
  • The flight Thursday was a training mission that involved pilots, flight engineers and loadmasters.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The only other member of the crew, the loadmaster, was seriously injured along with four passengers.
    Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Johnson was a loadmaster on the KC-130, helping manage the cargo on board.
    Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 13 July 2017
  • Harter, a loadmaster with the Missouri Air National Guard, was pronounced dead at the scene.
    Fox News, 7 May 2018
  • Each crew includes two pilots, a navigator, a flight meteorologist, and a loadmaster.
    Nathan Mattise, WIRED, 13 July 2012
  • In 1969, he was drafted, and spent four years flying in and out of Vietnam as a cargo plane loadmaster, balancing the weight of tanks and helicopters going in and cadavers coming out.
    Kathryn Joyce, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
  • Taking part in the deployment were pilots, co-pilots, navigators, loadmasters, mechanics, fuel specialists, and other personnel to operate the huge C-130H cargo planes.
    J.d. Duggan, Twin Cities, 9 Sep. 2019

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