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After opening the doors to the baggage and cargo holds, a belt-loader or a pod-loader is positioned, depending on the aircraft. The rampie inside the belly of a single-aisle plane places each piece of luggage onto the belt, and their partner takes it off the belt and puts it into a baggage cart.
The carts head to the baggage room, and the luggage is dropped onto a conveyor, hopefully showing up on a carousel soon after you've arrived. Wide-body planes carrying hundreds of passengers needed an efficient way of handling luggage and cargo, so baggage and cargo pods were developed back when jumbo jets first appeared.
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Pods are filled with passengers' bags, and handled by a purpose-built machine. One rampie can operate it, and make the pods dance on the loader's platform or in a plane's holds by activating powered wheels. Catering trucks join the crowd outside the plane's fuselage. Rising on a scissor lift, the truck's box matches the height of the plane's galley doors. The catering crew replaces used galley carts with newly stocked ones, each cart coded for a specific location in the galleys.
To service the double-deck Airbus A mega-jet, catering trucks reach way up, to the upper galley doors.
Perhaps it's not the most desirable ramp job, but somebody's got to empty the plane's lavatory holding tanks, and refill the fresh water system. Just like a recreational vehicle, this doesn't happen during every stop. Rampies position a truck- or cart-mounted tank and pump unit, and connect hoses to do the work. Like your car, a plane's fuel tanks aren't necessarily filled at every stop.
An airline's operations team will have figured out how much fuel is needed for each leg of a plane's daily routing, and when to refuel. Big tanker trucks connect to the plane's fuel system under the wing, or a pumper truck will hook up to a fuel hydrant in the ramp, then to the jet's tanks, and pump away.
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Pushback is when an aircraft is pushed backwards away from the airport gate by vehicles called tugs or tractors. Closer to departure, an aircraft tug will park right in front of the nose wheel. Samuel Taylor Coleridge , who had been lent a copy of Songs of Innocence and of Experience , considered Blake a "man of Genius," and Wordsworth made his own copies of several songs.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. From Songs of Experience.
First published in This poem is in the public domain. I dreamt a dream! What can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen Guarded by an Angel mild: So he took his wings, and fled; Then the morn blushed rosy.
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every blackning. Top questions about Air Travel.
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