Chinese Boy Becomes The Youngest Person To Fly A Plane Unassisted At The Age Of 5

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.