Wiktionary
adv. Without aircraft-engine power. n. 1 An unpowered propeller. 2 (context often used attributively English) Failed aircraft power. vb. To fly, especially to land, an aircraft without power.
Usage examples of "dead stick".
Only the softest and most continuous whisper of sounds, compounded of the swishing and brushing of twigs, the rustle of last autumns leaves under many feet, the snap of a dead stick, the brief and soft exchange of voices, a startled bird rising from underfoot in shrill alarm and indignation.
I don't dare make a glide landing, dead stick-the old girl is loaded.
I don't dare make a glide landing, dead stick - the old girl is loaded.
I don't dare make a glide landing, dead stick -- the old girl is loaded.
If she was lost and had to set down in a field, she wanted to do it while she still had power, not dead stick.
A classroom going well had its own smell: a hint of pencil shavings, poster paints, long-dead stick insect, glue and, of course, the faint aroma of Billy.
He was falling with a dead stick between his legs, but he wasn't dead yet.