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At the end of the 19th century, a brilliant inventor, Professor Jonathan T. Buck, crafted a beautiful steam-powered airship for an expedition to South Americas Amazon River Basin in search of a magnificent lost city hidden from terrestrial explorers for centuries by its surrounding dense forests.
But something mysterious happened in the heart of the jungle Buck, his crew and the Air Paddle Steamer Claire vanished.
More than a century later, an expedition sent to look for any trace of the Claire vanished and its crew discovered a single, discarded trunk lodged high in the forest canopy. Inside was this notebook: a riveting firsthand account that reveals not only just how Buck drew up the plans for his airship, but what fate befell the expedition.
Professor Jonathan T. Bucks Mysterious Airship Notebook is unlike any adventure story before. Part drawing guide, part historical saga, this book will transport readers to a world before modern technology, when steam power, gadgets, gases and gizmos took us into the skies.
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BORN: BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA,
SEPTEMBER 17, 1850; DIED: UNKNOWN
Jonathan T. Buck was an American engineer, riverboat captain, flight pioneer, and esteemed adventurer. Considered one of the great innovators of controlled aeronautical flight, he is most famous for designing and constructing the Air Paddle SteamerClaire, an elegant steam-powered riverboat dirigible, which was fully navigable through sky and, if necessary, water. Professor Bucks historic air voyage took the Claire nearly 2,500 miles through the Amazon rainforest in search of the mysterious lost city of Madeira before Buck, his crew, and the Claire disappeared into the hot, dense jungles of the southern Amazon, never to be seen again.
Final newspaper portrait of Buck just before the Madeira Expedition (January 1888).
The son of a renowned steamboat builder, Buck learned the trade firsthand, captaining his own Mississippi riverboat at the age of 15 and then becoming a bright and gifted apprentice nautical engineer. As an engineer, Buck was truly brilliantby the age of 20 he had patented two dozen designs, ranging from miniature steam boilers, propellers, and internal combustion engines to a lightweight alloy known as Bucks iron.
In 1871, 21-year-old Buck, yearning for adventure, signed on as chief engineer of the Amazonas Trading Company, a steamboat outfit running rubber trees out of the deep jungles of the Amazon. Stationed out of Iquitos, Peru, nearly 1,900 miles up the worlds largest river, Buck often traveled from the headwaters to the Atlantic, diverting down dozens of snaking tributaries along the way, as he repaired boats and charted new routes. It was during these voyages through the damp, dark wilderness that Buck became enchanted by the rumors of a lost city, hidden for centuries by impenetrable forests south of the Amazon River. Though the mysterious city was known by many different names, Buck called it Madeira.
Returning to Baton Rouge in 1879, Buck turned his skills as a nautical engineer toward mastering the novel discipline of aeronautics. He believed a controlled airship was the best way to successfully explore the jungles that hid long-lost Madeira. Working alongside airship pioneers like Professor Peter Campbell, Charles Renard, and Paul Haenlein, Buck drew together plans for a cutting-edge airshipa paddleboat capable of traveling beyond the rivers, above the trees, and through the skies.
1877 British surveyors mapping Brazil from a tethered balloon inspire Bucks navigable airship.
1879 Buck begins aeronautics study with fellow airship pioneers.
1882 Initial plans for the APS Claire are finalized. Buck begins construction of the lightweight gondola.
1885 Teaching aeronautics at the University of New Orleans, Buck meets future crewmembers Dr. Harriet Winchester and Chester Marone.
1886 Final tests on the envelope and ballonets. APS Claire deemed airworthy.
1887 APS Claires maiden voyage. Flies over Lake Pontchartrain, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.
APS Claire photographed over New Orleans during its four-hour maiden voyage, 1887.
In April 1888, Buck and his crew load APS Claire onto an ocean steamer bound for South America. After waiting out the rainy season, the Claire lifts off from Georgetown, British Guiana, on January 21, 1889, and slips over the tropical highlands and down into the Amazon basin. Flying with stiff tailwinds, the dirigible makes a record-shattering flight of nearly 1,500 miles in just ten days. The flight, while quick, is made treacherous by turbulence, storms, and numerous steep ravines.
After a lengthy delay in Iquitos, Peru, the Claire continues 800 miles southeast, exploring the western side of the Madeira River in search of the city. Enroute, a strong tropical storm thrashes the Claire for days. The crew rides out the fierce weather by anchoring to a tall tree and taking shifts at night stoking the boilers to keep the ship afloat. After the storm, the Claire limps north to Manaus, Brazil, where she makes port to fix structural damage to the gondola and envelope.
The Claires next course takes her between the Madeira and Tapajs Rivers, one of the most remote places in the world. On August 19, 1889, Bucks distinctive airship is spotted nearly 350 miles up the Tapajs by the riverboat PS Gilbert. The Gilbert reports that the Claire signals, city found south, before heading directly into an approaching storm front. The ship is never seen again.
In 2009, we organized an expedition to retrace the flight course of APS Claire, hoping to find evidence of either Bucks journey or his lost city. For months, we navigated above the Amazon rainforest in a sturdy modern airship. Even so, despite every modern technological advantage, the trip was harrowing. We encountered sudden thunderstorms, massive fog-shrouded hills, and towering trees that jutted out of the forest like deadly pikes. Finally, in October 2009, we spotted a small trunk jettisoned from the Claire that had remained suspended 200 feet in the Amazonian canopy for over a century. In the trunk we found a compass, a watch, maps, several peculiar gold coins, and, most importantly, Bucks original drawings for his vanished ship, complete with handwritten notes about the expedition. It is this spectacular find that we share with you now.
Over the Paranatinga River in September 2009.
APRIL 1888
Departs New Orleans, U.S.
JULY 1888
Arrives Georgetown, British Guiana
JANUARY 21, 1889
Georgetown to Iquitos (1,500 miles in ten days)
JUNE 15, 1889
Departs Iquitos for Madeira River (near Porto Velho)
JUNE 30, 1889
Emergency landing in Manaus, Brazil
AUGUST 15, 1889
Course to Madeira and Tapajs Rivers
AUGUST 19, 1889
Final sighting by PS Gilbert
OCTOBER 2009
Trunk from APS Claire recovered
patents pending 1887
Property of the J.T. Buck Airship Company
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If found please return to
J.T. Buck Airship Company
700 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
United States of America
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