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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?"