The above link/s highlight the problem! The chap who has carefully built the model firmly believes that the aircraft was re-winged with standard B2 wings, but only because he thinks it would have been ludicrous to have fitted the tanks in a non-standard position (I asked him about this).
Likewise, the flight simulator people have made the same assumption, probably because they've picked-up the same assertion off the internet. It becomes a sort of Chinese whisper and if we're not careful it will become fact, even though photographs clearly show it isn't fact at all.
However, examination of photographs clearly shows that the tanks are attached to the tips of a PR9 outer wing. There's no logical reason why the tanks (pods in this case) would be attached here, as they could have been attached on the standard PR9 position on the original B2 wing tip inboard. So there must have been a good reason why they were not.
Even Adrian Balch's magnificent book "Testing Colours" doesn't solve the mystery. Two lovely photos in there, but they only show the starboard tank (pod) attached to a wing tip, but no clarification as to what wing tip it is. But close examination of the shape and the navigation light suggests it's a PR9 wing.
So... this is where I came in. Logic suggests that the tanks should be fitted to a standard B2 outer wing but even on the above photo, you can see that it isn't a B2 outer wing, it's a PR9 wing.
It's a very odd machine!
Last edited by WH904; 22nd Jul 2013 at 19:19.