How a boy's flights of fancy took off

After six tries, Liu Yibing successfully built his own plane and turned his hobby into a career

Liu Yibing was a teenager when he made his first plane from bed sheets and the engine of a pesticide sprayer in 1990.

The determined youngster from Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, fashioned the 5-meter body from steel tubing he bought from a construction materials market and sourced the wheels from a cart.