This podcast was posted on December 7, 2020.  Jim McCutchen began manufacturing McCutchen Skywheels rotor blades in 1985.  Following a successful run until 2001, his company manufactured 6,000 rotor blades.  To put that into perspective, if you placed the rotor blades end-to-end, they would stretch 17-miles long.  That's a lot of rotor blades.  During his time of ownership, Jim did considerable research and testing.  Our podcast begins with an update from Skywheels President Joe Covelli.  Joe details his goal of bringing Skywheels back on the market and being sold again.  That goal included matching the current rotor blade manufacturing to the original McCutchen Skywheels and its safety and performance characteristics.  The goal of matching performance between newly manufactured rotor blades and original McCutchen Skywheels was met in the summer of 2020 during test flights by two pilots who confirmed they flew the same and had the same performance charactersitics.