A "deadstick" landing means landing an aircraft with the engine shut down and the propeller stopped. The term predates aviation, originating in British nautical slang for a ship's tiller that has lost its steering oar. Early aviators adopted it to describe the unpowered glide that follows an engine failure. The technique is simple in theory: establish best glide speed, pick a suitable field, and land. In practice, it requires precise energy management, wind assessment, and the discipline to resist turning back to the runway when low and slow. The most famous application of the same discipline in history was not a deadstick aircraft landing, but the 1967 Gemini 8 emergency spacecraft abort by Neil Armstrong and David Scott after a stuck thruster sent their spacecraft spinning uncontrollably. Armstrong shut down the thrusters, used the reentry control system to stabilize, and executed a controlled reentry to a predetermined splashdown point in the Pacific. The skill is the same whether in a Cub at 1,000 feet or a spacecraft at 100 miles: fly the airplane all the way to the ground.