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”.