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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Strickling managed to bring the drone, which was attached by strings to the hydrongen-filled flamingo, crashing to the ground, breaking a propellor.<br /><br />When the drone was fixed, Strickling inserted a lit party sparkler into the flamingo and launched it into the air again.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"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.
