When did boom-and-zoom become accepted practice?

When did boom-and-zoom become an accepted fighter tactic?

Related ideas appeared in the First World War, while accepted operational variations developed during the 1920s.

Recognizable boom-and-zoom ideas appeared in the First World War, with clearer fleet or service-level practice during the 1920s. This distinction separates an idea appearing in combat from the later point when armed forces treated it as an accepted method. The interwar period therefore bridges early experimentation and routine doctrine.