A five-year-old boy from China has become the
Guinness world record holder for the youngest person to
pilot a plane.
He Yide, nicknamed Duoduo, made a 35-minute flight in
an ultralight aircraft across the Beijing Wildlife Park
Aug 31, Chinese media reported Tuesday.
Zhang Yonghui, the person in charge of the aviation club
where Duoduo learned flying, said the distance of the
flight was 30 km.
He Liesheng, the boy’s father, said he wanted his son to
become braver by flying a plane and also develop his
curiosity and desire to explore, according to the Global
Times.
The boy earlier sparked a fury in 2012 when a video of
his running half unclad in the snow went viral on the
internet. The video was shot by his family in New York at
minus 13 degrees Celsius.
The boy has also sailed a yacht in an international
competition and climbed the Fujiyama mountain in Japan
during a rainstorm, the media reports said.
Duoduo’s father was nicknamed “Eagle Dad” because of
his strict parenting methods and has prompted debates
over his style of parenting.
“His education style is worth learning, but not every
child is suitable for it,” the Global Times quoted Gu Li,
the director of a learning research centre in Nanjing, as
saying.
Sun Yunxiao, deputy director of the China Youth and
Children Research Centre, said if the boy had
encountered problems, it could have impacted his entire
life.
“We should not force children to do what they are not
able to do. Children can benefit more from playing with
toys or mud than flying a plane,” he said.
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