In 1648, John Wilkins cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople in 1554-1562, as recording that "a Turk in Constantinople" attempted to fly.
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A 1996 feature length film, "Istanbul Beneath My Wings" (İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında) concerns the lives of Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi, his brother and rocket aviator Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and Ottoman society in the early 17th century, as witnessed and narrated by Evliyâ Çelebi.
Evliya Çelebi | Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed | Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah | Ahmed Mazhar | Ahmed Mohamed Islam | Ahmed Chalabi | Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef | Sohail Ahmed | Mahmoud Ahmed | Anna Molka Ahmed | Ahmed Omar Abu Ali | Ahmed Ben Bella | Ruhal Ahmed | Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | Fayza Ahmed | Fakhruddin Ahmed | Ahmed Zaki Yamani | Ahmed Saad Osman | Ahmed Ould Daddah | Ahmed Moor | Ahmed Johnson | Ahmed III | Ahmed Aboutaleb | Riz Ahmed | Muzaffar Ahmed | Ishfaq Ahmed | Hussain Rasheed Ahmed | Aziz Ahmed Khan | Ahmed Tidiane Souaré | Ahmed Shawqi |
Istanbul Beneath My Wings is a 1996 film about the lives of Lagari Hasan Çelebi, his brother and fellow aviator Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, and Ottoman society in the early 17th century as witnessed and narrated by Evliya Çelebi.