So the training worked! Chinese boy forced to play in snow by 'Eagle Dad' becomes youngest person to fly a plane unassisted at the age of 5

    He Yide 'flew for 35 minutes' over Beijing, according to his father
    'Eagle Dad' He Liesheng known for putting son through strict regime
    Last year video showed him forcing He Yide to do press ups in the snow
    Previously sent boy out in boat on open seas alone


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 Yide, 5, has become the youngest person to fly an airplane solo, according to his father

He hit the headlines when a video emerged of him being forced to stand in the New York snow in his underwear
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.
When the video of the unhappy child shivering in a snowy New York appeared on YouTube at the start of this year, outraged viewers demanded that Duoduo be taken into care.

He Yide was accompanied in the airplane with his coach (pictured) but only for supervision, Chinese media said