On Friday, Honeycomb Aeronautical has unveiled a pletora of new products to their lineup of peripherals ahead of FSExpo's busiest day. An accoutrement of products ranging from a refreshed iteration of the original Alpha yoke controller to the unveil of the company's first military equipment. Most of the products will be available for purchase next year and Honeycomb and several other brands struggle to procure sufficient supply in the ongoing pandemic.

Opening the presentation on Friday, Honeycomb's CEO Nicki Repenning unveiled the "Alpha Flight Controls XPC", an iterative upgrade over the original Alpha yoke which includes better haptics with the includion of hall-effect sensors for up to 400% "better resolution", and a spring-loaded mechanism for the ignition. Form factor wise, it appears that minor adjustments was made to the yoke controller, most notably the housing box now has a squared off profile with the company's distinctive Honeycomb patterning going edge to edge on the front as opposed to the original Alpha yoke's arched grill:

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The new XPC model will see a $20 price increase, bringing it to the $300 price mark ($299). The company plans to bring it to market around the first quarter of next year, and will be multi-platform compatible: PC, Macs, and Xbox. A brief follow up on Tango Foxtrot was mentioned; the flightstick and throttle controls that Honeycomb has previously teased returns to the presentation coupled with an accessory and is now seemingly under the XPC label too; a telescopic table mount. The controls are also slated for availability next year:

The keynote also introduces a range of accesories to the mix, dust covers to protect your gear, Clamps to hold controls off your table's ledge in similar fashion as Tango Foxtrot's table mount, a new GA silicone wheel cover for the Bravo throttle quadrant to provide a better General Aviation experience, and finally a 30w rated dock to wire all your equipment in one central hub.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing addition to Honeycomb's catalogue is their "Lima Flight Chair", which introduces a sculptured ergonomic seatback for comfortable flight simming for long periods of time; in a departure from other options on the market, the Lima Flight Chair is a swivel chair. The armrests of the chair is designed to integrate different peripherals such as joysticks and throttle controls, which are not limited to Honeycomb's own controls, bringing compatibility with products from other brands. The controls would be magnetically attached to the front end of the armrests:

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Finally, Nicki unwraps their Sigma Tau control set, a mark of their foray into military related products. This is more of a teaser as there was no unit avaialbe to explore at their booth, Honeycomb promises that the new equipment will incorperate functions and controls that arent seen either in both civilian and military (assuming in comparison to other flight sim peripherals). The Joystick will launch at the end of this year, followed by the Throttle controls which will be available around the beginning of near year, like the XPC flight controls:

That's all for the presentation, Honeycomb's booth is one of the most trafficked at the expo, with all hands on trialing the newly announced gear: