The headline is totally wrong. The airplanes flew “over the Korean peninsula”, i.e. over South Korea. It would be a huge provocation to fly over North Korean airspace.
Um, The Douglas A-1 Skyraider was WWII - Viet Nam era. Great airplane anyway. 
Holy crap! Yes. Please fix.
The reality is bad enough. (They flew close to the border, which they usually don’t do.)
Powerful War Plans?
If the original headline is accurate, it may represent a new form of diplomacy that Trump thunk up…
but I’d wager its just another precious typo…
I remember when Congress wrestled with the idea of spending a billion$$ apiece on these planes. The wing fold option alone was $50 million per plane.
War Plans?
Are we making paper airplanes out of planning documents and throwing them into the DMZ??
With Trump in office I imagine the military is throwing most of their plans out the window.
Actually you are wrong. All the big money has gone into disguising our new high-tech bombers as WWII airplanes - we call is stealth technology, I think.
Oh good grief. Is anyone at the copyediting desk this morning? Although the image of a US pilot in a vintage WWII-era fighter flying over NK waving a bunch of papers out of his window and going “Eh? Get a load of these 'ere war plans!” did make me chuckle.
Reminds me of the film Airplane! where although they were in a passenger jet, the background engine noise was always a propeller aircraft.
NK’s fearsome response was no joke either.
Decoys aside, there really was an experimental inflatable fixed wing aircraft. I give you the Goodyear Inflatoplane. From the wiki article, the “ultimately cancelled the project when it could not find a valid military use for an aircraft that could be brought down by a well-aimed bow and arrow.”
This was in 1956. In the era of the F-86 the US Army approved money for an inflatable aircraft. Your 1950s tax dollars at work.
It was designed in 1944 and first flew in 1945. Production began in 1946 and ended in 1957 with a total of 3,180 having been built. In 1962, the existing Skyraiders were redesignated A-1D through A-1J and later used by both the USAF and the Navy in the Vietnam War.
Why is there a picture of a WW2 Corsair on this article?
I believe the plane in the photo is an F4U Corsair, however. Not 100% sure of that, what with the folded wings.
It good they did this because until that very moment Kim would have had no idea the US has a powerful military.
I’m sure this will clear everything up.
Yes, that’s a WW2 F4U Corsair. And I am completely lost as to what this article is about now.
Are we sending WW2-equipped units to fight the DPRK ?