A self-styled "nutty professor" dad from Australia on Tuesday filled and inflatable flamingo with hydrogen, lifted it into the air with a drone and then set it on fire.

Science teacher Jacob Strickling, who is the creator of the popular YouTube channel 'Make Science Fun', suffered a major mishap during the "experiment" in the garden of a home in Gosford, Australia.

Strickling managed to bring the drone, which was attached by strings to the hydrongen-filled flamingo, crashing to the ground, breaking a propellor.

When the drone was fixed, Strickling inserted a lit party sparkler into the flamingo and launched it into the air again.

The hydrogen ignited with a jet of flame and after a short time there was a small explosion as the rest of the hydrogen caught.

"If you're wondering why it didn't 'blow up' it's because there was limited oxygen available for the hydrogen to burn," Strickling wrote online.

Just for fun, Jacob Strickling, creator of the popular YouTube Channel 'Make Science Fun', filled an inflatable flamingo with hydrogen and flew it with a drone.
The first mishap occurred when he got the drone pilot to lower the flamingo over Strickling's head. Unfortunately the drone kept flying forward and Strickling stopped moving causing the drone to go crashing into the ground. The drones motors were screaming as they had got wound up in the string.
With a new propellor the hardy drone was good to go again.
Strickling then inserted a party sparkler into the flamingo and the drone lifted the bird into the air. Eventually the hydrogen ignited with a small jet of flame. After a short time there was a small explosion as the rest of the hydrogen ignited. If you're wondering why it didn't 'blow up' it's because there was limited oxygen available for the hydrogen to burn.