Let's try this again, maybe this time someone can answer the question.

[oneshooter]

102. Strangly enough the Corsair was not aproved for carrier landings

until the Brits figured a way to do it. The trouble was that big damn engine forced the cockpit to be behind the wing center. Damn poor visibility for landing on a moving deck.

From WIKI: In Royal Navy service, because of the limited hangar deck height in several classes of British carrier, many Corsairs had their outer wings "clipped" by 8 in (200 mm) to clear the deckhead.[65] The change in span brought about the added benefit of improving the sink rate, reducing the F4U's propensity of "floating" in the final stages of landing.[65] Despite the clipped wings and the shorter decks of British carriers, Royal Navy aviators found landing accidents less of a problem than they had been to U.S. Navy aviators due to the curved approach used. British units solved the landing visibility problem by approaching the carrier in a medium left-hand turn, which allowed the pilot to keep the carrier's deck in view over the dip in the port wing, allowing safe carrier operations, and would later be adopted by U.S. Navy and Marines fliers themselves as well for carrier use of the Corsair.[66]

The "Whispering Death" became a favorite of the USMC fliers.

Question, and no cheating! Why were the wings bent? Two part answer.