Editing Lagâri Hasan Çelebi (section)

==Popular culture==
''[[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.

The legend was addressed in an experiment by the television show ''[[MythBusters]]'', on November 11, 2009, in the episode "[[MythBusters (2009 season)#ep130|Crash and Burn]]"; however, the team noted that Evliya Çelebi had not sufficiently specified the alleged design used by Lagâri Hasan and said that it would have been "extremely difficult" for a 17th-century figure, unequipped with modern steel alloys and welding, to land safely or even achieve thrust at all.<ref name="MythBustersCrashAndBurn">{{Cite episode |title=Crash and Burn |episode-link=MythBusters (2009 season)#ep130 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1548139/ |access-date=31 December 2013 |series=MythBusters |series-link=MythBusters |network=Discovery Channel |date=11 November 2009 |season=7 |number=17 |time=00:05:35, 00:42:54, and 00:43:11 |transcript=Transcript |transcript-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407050442/http://tv.ark.com/transcript/mythbusters-%28crash_and_burn%29/6222/DSCP/Saturday_December_05_2009/122354/ |quote=So, unfortunately with myths of this kind, there's no one single version of the story, which means that there's no one definitive rocket design for us to build. ... First of all, the 140 pounds of black powder that he's supposed to have used as his propellant would have been extremely dangerous to handle, not to mention containing all of that explosive force and converting it to thrust would have been extremely difficult. ... And second, the materials that we have available today, all the modern steel alloys, and all the fabrication techniques, like welding — he didn't have any of that.}}</ref> Although the re-imagined rocket rose, it exploded midflight.<ref name="MythBustersCrashAndBurn" />