Hey 1080Tommy

To have a bad landing and scratch the plane a little is no harm!!! All the wooden things get together again with not big hustle.
The fact that everybody went unharmed out of it is the good conclusion of that unlucky day.
As far as I have and still fly the TF 60size F4U, the CMPro 120 size F4U and the Hangar 9 F4U, I can tell you of one thing.
The Hangar 9 is the best of them in flying characteristics. But there are some tricky things for this bird you must know about.
First of all I think that you are overpowered. That is the reason for this specific model who doesn't have flaps; its dificulty in landings.
Try to put a smaller propeller.
You must face a long lasting flare that most of the times end up with bouncing in landings right?
Now the Corsair was never fully controllable rudderwise when I made takeoffs especially with the CMpro. The Fin is small and the movement on the rudder must tend to 90 deg. in order to obey. The F4U also have tendencies of "adverse yaw" so I would suggest you to solve this with the ailerons diferential. Now the trick that you must use in order to have better landings is that you should either trim your bird with down trim a little and try to land normally (forget 3 point landings) or you come with 2 or 3 clicks on your throttle centered and low on the runway and cut the throttle when you want to touch down. I hope that this helps. I also hope that you'll never face the same problems again.
Cheers
Johnnie