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means To bring an aircraft down safely with no engine power at all, relying purely on altitude, airspeed, and skill to glide it to the ground.

from Straight out of aviator slang — "stick" is the control column that steers the plane, and when the engine quits, that stick goes "dead," lifeless in the pilot's hand, with no power behind its movements. The phrase dates to the early-to-mid 20th century, born from real emergencies where pilots had to glide down engine-off, and it's stuck around in flight training as the term for deliberately practicing an engine-out landing.