What the article says is that there are two level flight speeds for any
power setting. Nobody disputes this. Additionally everybody knows how to
get the lower speed. The dispute is whether there is a higher speed
obtainable than that obtained by climbing and then leveling off and
accellerating to cruise speed.

Mike
MU-2


"Kevin Darling" wrote in message
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I'm reading "Fate is the Hunter" and just read something interesting.
Gann
states that they would climb to 100 feet above their cruising altitude
and
then descend the 100 feet back down. He called this "flying on the
step."
He claims that it bought them a few more knots of airspeed.

Interestingly, a little Googling found an article from the World
Beechcraft Society, repeated on the US Naval Academy website, that
actually _supports_ the idea in some cases. Look for about the eighth
link down on this page:

http://web.usna.navy.mil/~dfr/technical_flying.html

Titled "Is There A Step?"