Ground support equipment design.

Ground support equipment works in rain, cold, noise and darkness, against a turnaround clock, often in the hands of new hires. It gets bumped, dropped and hosed down, and every minute an aircraft waits on the ground costs money.

That makes GSE design a human-factors problem as much as an engineering one. Controls must be obvious with gloves on, weights must suit the people who lift them, and the equipment must fit the aircraft, vehicles and procedures that already exist. We design for all of it, and we design for manufacturing from the start, so a good concept stays affordable to build.

In a narrow-body cargo hold, bags arriving at the door are usually moved to the back by hand, often by handlers working on their knees. LOADSTERS asked us to change that.

We developed the product concept for portable conveyor modules that ride with the belt loader, go up through the cargo door and snap together into a powered line along the hold floor. Each module carries up to 150 lb, has simple forward, stop and reverse controls, and works with most belt loaders and with B737, A320 and E-Jet holds.

Then we designed and tested the systems proof of concept: a working prototype, wired to test electronics on the bench, that showed the idea works before production design began.

The same approach runs through our other equipment work. We designed a modular zero-emission backup power system with controls and status at eye level, and the enclosures and system UI for Phinergy's Aluminum-Air Generator, whose 72 kW / 1.4 MWh module was tested for data centers in October 2026.

We bring aerospace rigor to the ramp and the hangar floor: co-founder Konstantin Ziman was previously Head of Design at Eviation Aircraft. See all industries we serve.