A Chinese boy has become the youngest person to fly a light airplane single-handed at the age of five, according to his over-achieving father 'Eagle Dad'.He Yide, nicknamed Duoduo, completed the 35-minute flight at Beijing Wildlife Park in China on Saturday.
His father He Liesheng calls himself an 'Eagle Dad' and the pair made headlines last year when pictures emerged of the boy being forced to do push-ups in the snow in New York.
He apparently paid 30,000 yuan (£3,100) for private flying lessons for his son and now says he will contact the Guinness Book of Records about the feat.According to China's People Day, there was another pilot in the aircraft with Duoduo but only for supervision.
The super-strict father wrote on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter: 'His first flight was very successful and he wasn't scared at all.'
He senior, from Nanjing in eastern China, is famous in his home country for the daily training regime he puts his son through.
His mother could also be heard in the footage, encouraging the boy to carry on as he begged for a hug.
Mr Liesheng also trains his son to enable him to compete against much older children in sailing competitions.
Eagle Dad has previously said that because his son was born several months premature he had to make him undergo tough tests of physical and mental endurance to build up his strength.
He said at the time: 'Only by placing him in a situation with strong winds and waves can he show his potential.'
Last year, He and his two children had to be rescued from Mount Fuji in Japan after the father ignored weather warnings.
The pushy parent had brought only a chocolate bar and a cup of water for rations, thinking there would be shops en route.He admitted that he was as terrified as his children on some stretches of the climb, when the trio were forced to scale 70-degree slopes. The militant father had not brought waterproof clothing, so a sudden downpour soaked them to the skin, and most shelters on the mountain were boarded up.
As temperatures dipped to almost zero and the air became thinner, his children began crying and Duoduo, was nearly collapsing with altitude sickness. Park rangers eventually had to be called and they gave the family warm clothes and medical treatment.
He Yede and his father pictured with the Chinese flag before a climb up Mount Fuji
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