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A WACO WItH AN AttItuDE By Jim Froneberger

Jarrod Lindemann

and his Incredible
Flying on His Father’s Wing
Jet Waco

I t’s been described as an “assault on snap rolls, flat spins, and hovers, and ta. His family has lived there for multiple

your senses.” One minute it looks and
generations, and his dad ran an aircraft
streak skyward in breathtaking vertical
sounds much like any of the other
crop spaying business, as well as a family-
climbs. The Jet Waco’s current caretaker
big, rumbling, highly-modified radial
much my whole childhood was im-
from North Dakota who now gets to fly
engine biplanes designed primarily is Jarrod Lindemann, a small town boy run aircraft maintenance shop. “Pretty
to perform at airshows. But in an instant, one of the most awesome machines on mersed in airplanes,” Jarrod remembers.
it transforms into a screaming, snorting the airshow circuit. “Mostly agricultural planes. Super Cubs.
jet-powered beast capable of accelerating Stearmans. stuff like that. I just loved me-
vertically and climbing to over 10,000 feet fROM Ag-SPRAyINg chanical things, loved flying, and loved
without stopping. tO AERObAtICS airplanes.”
We are talking about the Jet Waco, a Jarrod Lindemann grew up on a farm He started flying a Super Cub at 13
one-of-a-kind airshow hotrod that can in the country, about ten miles outside of and soloed as soon as he could. Once he
reach speeds of up to 250 mph, execute the small town of Enderlin, North Dako- received his commercial license at age 18,
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