When I was going to college Black Sheep was in its hayday. Pappy Boyington came to our college and gave a lecture on the show and the F4U and to tell some war time stories. He also said that those planes were suppose to fly carrier but they had so much torque that if you were not a good pilot that those planes would under full throttle on take off would roll over on take off so they tried to land base them to give them more runway to take off. Don't know if that is gospel but those were the stories he told.
The USNavy fliers were taught to make a straight on final approach with a signal man guiding him in, problem was with that huge motor the F4U fliers couldn't see the deck or the signal man so the Navy wouldn't approve the plane for carrier operation. It was the Brits that taught the USN to make a constantly curved approach keeping the carrier in sight. The USN did operate the F4U after that.
