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Thanks all for your replies! I've just been trying out my KI43 and sure enough the mixture leans as it should. But as regards the us fighters and the Lightning in particular, I seem to remember reading that Lindberg was sent into the PTO to teach the Lightning Jockies how to get the most in range and endurance out of the A/C. So surely if it's at all possible it would be great to have the mixture levers activated for the sake of realism. Lindberg wouldn't just have told them reduce the rpm. They never would have got Yamamoto for instance that way. Or at least, they never would have made it back afterwards!