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Thomas Borchert wrote:

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.

We can all say thank you Charles Lindberg for teaching us this technique.