Wiktionary
Describing the landing of an aircraft with no power from the engines v
1 To land an aircraft without power. 2 (cx fishing English) To present the lure either by casting or a vertical drop and allow the bait to remain motionless for an extended period before retrieval.
Wikipedia
Deadstick may refer to:
- Deadstick landing, when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land
- Deadsticking, the act of presenting a soft plastic lure in fishing
- Operation Deadstick, Second World War mission part of the Normandy landings
Usage examples of "deadstick".
He had ordered the pilot to get very high, then cut off his engines, glide in and deadstick down.
There was also the possibility of a deadstick landing on top of the trees, but he did not know if he should chance killing himself for the sake of the unsavory characters in the rear cockpit.
He was facing perhaps the toughest moment of the flight, an unpowered deadstick landing.
One hairy damned ride, with internal hydrogen tanks and a long damned ballistic course, and then landeddamned nearly out of fuelin a deadstick landing on that incomparable pleasure planet, Marduk.