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HoneyBee king 2 is in stock, there are 2 colours of the HoneyBee King 2 - white and yellow.  White is the first to arrive - yellow should be a long shortly. 

We have had our first play…

First impressions were it looked similar to the King V1 but on closer inspection there are quite a few welcome differences.

1. Canopy - thicker plastic and easier to attach - in fact no bother at all. This will reduce damage a great deal. Our canopy sales will plummit!

2. Airframe is more robust plastic, simpler and well thought out. There is a battery compartment to protect the battery in a crash.  This battery compartment will carry our 2200 mAh 10C and 12C  batteries but I advise a brushless motor upgrade for these battery types.  The heli will get off the ground but the extra weight will counteract the extra flight time.

3. We are back to the older style gyro on these ones -not sure why? Maybe because the newer type gyro needs to be positioned in an ‘exact position’ which is not very convenient on the King airframe.

4. King 2 skids are much more robust and will take much harder impact than before.

5. King 2 in a hover (make sure your gyro is flat) is very nice - these micro electrics are really improving now.  I would say the new airframe has brought greater balance to the hover than the old version.

Thanks for your time :) 

A few common problems when people contacting us by email….

1. Send to the correct address” joel’at’heliguy.com”, “chris’at’heliguy.com” or “earlgrey’at’heliguy.com.  “sales’at’heliguy.com” does not get looked at - we use it to record sales confirmations only. I have replaced @ with ‘at’ above for robot spam reasons.

2. Don’t look like spam!  A customer contacting me recently after replying to my news letter telling me I had ignored his email.  I searched on the email he gave and he had indeed contacted me - most were unread in the junk folder - put there manually by myself.  He had no subject heading on any of his contacts and his name came up as ‘Almighty dread’ - I didn’t even register this as genuine heli contact. CAPITALS in the subject heading are good - even better if they have some words relating to helicopters.

3. Send to the right category of person, for example people ordering through paypal who who need their delivery address changed (because they haven’t updated after a house move) send to chris directly(he is the one printing your lablels) . Give a subject heading like ‘URGENT ADDRESS CHANGE’ because we ship out very quickly. If it is a very high value order we will not allow address changes. Unless we know you through the forum or are a regular.

4. I will never ignore you intentionally that’s a promise!  Adhere to the above rules and if you don’t get an answer send a group message - please do this as a last resort.  Earlgrey (Joe) , Chris and I are in constant contact.

* Chris and I don’t answer on weekends or after 6pm.  Need immediate support help…

TRY this…

Click this search button (or at the top of this screen) and type in your problem as best you can (not trying to patronise here).

The search results are exceptional and we have had many support articles you will find by doing this.

I am always open to do a deal and add a few incentives here and there here is one I did today, anyone else can have the same deal…

Order quote for complete Trex SE deal…..

http://www.heliguy.com/Electric-RC-Helicopters/Trex-450-SE/Trex-450-SE-with-35A-ESC-and-Brushless/

£238.27

http://www.heliguy.com/Extras/Radio-Transmitters/Futaba-FF7-/

£125.99

http://www.heliguy.com/Extras/HELI-electronics-deals/ELEC-FUTABA-DEAL/

£163.99

http://www.heliguy.com/Electric-RC-Helicopters/Dragonfly-4/Large-RC-helicopter-carrying-case/

£39.99

http://www.heliguy.com/Extras/LiPo-Chargers/lipoly-charger-2-and-3-cell-and-switching-adapter/

£13.99

The kit includes all the motors and ESC and 20C high powered Align battery for 3D flight.

I am throwing in an extra set of main blades giving in total….

325 PRO Rotor Blades x2
315 Carbon Rotor Blades x1

..included in the set.

I am also throwing in helicopter pitch gauge for your friend.

I am also throwing in a Trex training kit for free - this fits to the bottom of the helicopter to prevent topple when learning to fly.

Now where this deal differs from the other helicopter deal is it has 4 * HS56HB Karbonite gears - this are very popular helicopter servos and about 5-6 times the price of the servos that would have come with the assembled helicopter deals you saw on the site.

This gives a total price of £684.08 + £18.50 special delivery.

Total £702.58 - lets call it £699.95 as this looks nicer!

If you wanted the Canopy in any of these choices…..

http://www.heliguy.com/Extras/Canopy-mods/Introduction/

£28 inc VAT (normally £40) should be added on- I make hardly anything on this but I use it as an incentive for the helicopter deals. *These canopies are something else - you have to see them in the skin to realise - Hawk Beat and Cano Dragon are good ones.

*Summary you have got everything needed to get in the air, points to note….

You have the Futaba 401 gyro £110.00 RRP, HS56HB servos *4 (better than nylon servos), top of the range TX with charger (to be used on other helis in the future), SE kit (fully upgraded), high capacity 20C discharge lipo with cell balancer lead, very powerful brushless motor and ESC (governor mode), a few freebies including pitch gage, extra blades and training kit for the trex and all the other extra not mentioned.

Think this is expensive? Think again! 4 years ago I paid £310.00 for 4 channel RTF plastic rc helicopter with no extras.

Want to reduce this cost but not compromise on quality?

Ditch the SE and go for the S (CF). Want a deal? - Email me