Also, try to have your hand absorb a little of the impact by moving your hand slightly down as your stick lands.
Try not to hit windshields or windows or even other people who might get the stick land on their heads which might hurt them.
As The World-Telegram reported on March 11 , 1930 "The altimeters on the ship registered 30,000 and 32,000 yesterday when she was forced by motor trouble and waning gas supply to return to Roosevelt Field, where she narrowly averted an accident in making a dead-stick landing.
He backed up that digit with a big number, however, delivering a nearly flawless routine with a stuck landing for a score of 15.800.
A Crosby clearance popped into the air and over several players' sticks, landing perfectly for Dominic Moore, who twirled and fired from 25 feet to give Montreal a two-goal lead at 14 minutes 23 seconds.
Falck managed to glide back to base and make a "dead-stick" landing without power.
Flight tests were ordered to be continued with the original prototypes to validate the range figures, but the first prototype crashed on 5 April, killing the pilot as he attempted a dead-stick landing.
The grade was based upon his achievements; he had achieved a dead-stick landing within a fifty yard marker, a 15 minute flight at 6,000 feet, a 60-mile cross-country flight and 15 hours solo flying.
The team is looking into improving autonomy with better vision — the better it can see where it lands, the better SpaceBok can stick that landing.
(He did not stick the landing).
