Thanks for your response. Minimum height loss is what I am talking about. It came from a mistaken belief that aircraft performance for windshear encounters could be enhanced at high AOA. The last study in optimal trajectories (1989), done by Professor Angelo Miele and the Aero-Astronautics Group of Rice University showed that for both the takeoff and landing cases "Maintaining the aircraft at the stick shaker is a poor strategy in terms of altitude loss and survival capability." and "If the pilot accidentally or deliberately increases the angle of attack to the stick shaker value, follwing the windshear onset, the optimal recovery trajectory (ORT) requires that the angle of attack be reduced quickly to a lower value and then increased gradually in such a way that the stick shaker value is reached again near the end of the shear.", with substantiating proof that the ORT can recover from a windshear twice as strong as when a high AOA is maintained. Best performance for a jet aircraft occurs at the minimum drag point for the configuration. The pilot will not know when the shear ends, but should know where the ground begins and should not deliberately fly up the backside of the drag curve until ground impact is imminent.
The March 7, 2011 issue of AW&ST contains an article about several accidents where pilots (allegedly) kept an aircraft in a stall without recovering. This may be an effect of teaching pilots to fly at high AOA to minimize height loss instead or immediately recovering aerodynamic quality as they should have been taught in their first training flight.