Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s a portable toilet rocket

A group of American rocket enthusiasts may be potty but they ended up flushed with success after launching a portable toilet.

The levitating lavatory roared skywards, made an arc, then, slowed by parachutes, almost landed on a spectator’s pick-up truck 600m away.

In the US, the Michiana Rocketry club members planned the project for more than two years. The club is trying to increase awareness of rocketry as a hobby and prove it is possible to turn a porta-potty into a rocket and launch it successfully.