I also feel like the -1C feels a little heavier and less agile than the -1A or -1D.
So, I don't fly it quite the same as I do the A/D. I find I keep my fights a little faster, more "open", and avoid dropping flaps and chopping throttle as aggressively. I still do those things, just not quite as aggressively. I'm also more concerned about the "next guy" showing up when I'm in a bad position.
But "cursed"? No, I don't think so. If anything, doing the above-mentioned seems to increase my overall survivabilty. Conversely, when I'm in a -4, I find I feel more free to fly more recklessly since I have all that added power. That often causes me to find myself all snarled up where I shouldn't be (and quickly dead...) in the -4.
And that doesn't take the gun package into consideration from a lethality standpoint... When you couple flying faster (and what I think of as "smarter") with guns that allow me to kill with but the faintest little "tickle" I can't think of the F4U-1C as even slightly "cursed"...
