Not 'til they put air-breaks (5th edition?) on them anyway, to keep them from going out of control and inverted in a dive.
After that those Germain Fokkers were in trouble, and couldn't get away just by diving. In the early models the controls would lock up in a high speed dive, often causing the plane to crash, unless they were still high enough above the ground that they could stall out on the air-loop and regain control.
As I understand it...
I thought one main reason for those Corsair pivoting wings were for aircraft carrier use, making them easier to store below and on deck.
