Oral History Interview with Eugene Cameron, October 21, 2010 Page: 20

                                
EM: Yeah, I think you were telling me yesterday on the phone
when we were talking that early on, the Corsair  had a bit
of a bad reputation because it was so powerful, and if you
kind of overdid it, the darned thing would flip on you.
DC: Yes, there was a couple of instances where people that I
knew that had been friends of mine, not in my squadron,
fortunately, but in the other units where they had -- what
we had, we did the field carrier landings, even in the
Corsair just as we did in the torpedo bombers, why, you
would land, you'd get the signal that you'd landed, you get
the cut sign. But you wouldn't cut it when you were doing
field carrier landings. You would just throttle back a
little bit. Then you'd gun it again to take off to do
another round of practice landing. That point in time is
when you had to be cautious, because if you gave it too
much of a throttle at that point in time, your throttle was
on your left hand, and your joy stick was in you right
hand, and that's how you guided the aircraft, of course.
But if you threw that throttle too far forward, the tork on

the prop would have a tendency to flip the airplane. There
was a couple of instances where that happened with people,
and of course it ruined the plane and themselves.
EM: Yeah.

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