Thomas Borchert wrote in
:

Mike,

originated
out of military teachings that applied to very different pilots doing
very different things while flying very different aircraft.


Actually, it couldn't have been all of the military. Many major cities
in my home country of Germany would contain many more historic
buildings today, if those B-17s hadn't run oversquare and lean of
peak. The B-17s would never have reached them.


Irrelevant. They didn't run "oversquare" They ran where they were suposed
to. And they didn't run lean of peak, that engine had autolean and that
setting ran well rich of peak.





Bertie