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Ground Handling Vocabulary

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  • What's this?
    cargo strap
  • Conveyor system with balls or rollers over which unit load devices are moved.
    roller-bed; ball transfer
  • Left-hand side of the aircraft, facing forward.
    port
  • What's this?
    freight
  • Right-hand side of the aircraft, facing forward.
    starboard
  • Rope net used for securing cargo onto a pallet.
    aircraft pallet net
  • Cover used to protect cargo on a pallet.
    cargo cover
  • What's this?
    cargo bay
  • Fully boxed unit load device.
    aircraft container; air cargo container
  • What's this?
    All-cargo aircraft
  • What's this?
    passenger aircraft
  • What's this?
    combination aircraft
  • What's this?
    Air Cargo
  • What's this?
    Ground Handling
  • Unit load device with a flat platform on which cargo is loaded as a unit on to the aircraft.
    pallet
  • Holds unit load devices so they don’t move in the cargo bay.
    cargo loading system; CLS