Beagle Nuts - Aircraft with attitude!
Are you frustrated that you cannot represent the attitude of the aircraft?
You need Beagle Nuts!
The Beagle Nuts are used with flying bases, enabling a wide range of aircraft attitudes (pitch and roll) to be represented.
We use M3 nuts (which are 5.5 mm across flats) as the flat surfaces are perfectly matched to the 3.2 mm diameter magnets available from Dom's Decals.
Why not just use a nut? Because the magnets aren't attracted to them strongly enough to keep lead aircraft in place!
Important: ensure you mount the magnet very close to the centre of gravity of the plane; if you don't it will rotate on the Beagle Nut.
The bottom nut magnet has the opposite pole to the nut to all the other magnets!
And if a group of you are making bases and nuts, make sure you agree on which magnet orientation to use!
Four Phantoms (two lead, two plastic) being used to show how Beagle Nuts can be used to show different amounts of roll (0 deg, 60 deg, 90 deg, and 120 deg).
Four Phantoms (two lead, two plastic) being used to show how Beagle Nuts can be used to show different amounts of pitch (60 deg, 90 deg, -60 deg, and -90 deg).