A five-year-old boy has become the world's
youngest ever pilot.
He Yide, nicknamed Duoduo, from China
made a 35-minute flight across the Beijing
Wildlife Park.
An instructor sat behind him, but the tot
managed to fly the plane without any
assistance.
He piloted the Bee 3, which weighs just
100kg.
Duoduo's father He Liesheng, who is a
manager at a private textile company in
Nanjing, paid 30,000 yuan (£3,153) for
private flying lessons.
Using China's social microblogging site
Weibo, he has been uploading his son's
gruelling training schedule.
Training in flights, sports and maths,
Duoduo got up around 4:30am and arrived
at the airport at 5am every day.
His father has been nicknamed Eagle Dad by
Chinese media, after pushing his young son
to complete other extreme and gruelling
tasks.
The boy has also sailed a yacht two times his
weight in an international competition, and
climbed the Fujiyama mountain in Japan
during a rainstorm.
The Eagle Dad sparked fury last year, when
a video appeared of him forcing Duoduo to
run Unclad through snow and temperatures
of -13 C.
Some think the discipline is good for the
toddler, while others question if the father
is just "using his son to gain fame".
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