Wearing his pilot uniform and
headgear, the boy, from China, managed to fly the plane without any assistance
as his instructor sat beside him
A picture of the pilot Duoduo from
his father's Weibo account
Weibo
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 extremeand 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 naked 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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