Great progress, I wasn’t aware there is a museum at RAF Downham Market , could you provide further details is it open or a proposed one? the only thing I can find online is a proposed memorial? 

I too made a week of it starting with my first time at the Cosby show on Saturday and i was, like others i overheard amazed at the contrast of the  B17 display away from Dux; it was banked over at approx 350ft all way down showline which was L shaped so it also felt like it was circling you , it wasn’t just 3 flat flybys and land like at Dux. The Catalina was there and what a STOL aircraft it is when light, the £5 to go on board was a bargain. Mind you the Catalina show landing was a bit sporty curved approach right down to hard on main wheel which threw it  hard onto noseleg before the other main – for a split second it was pointing straight for crowd  – if it had ploughed in and slewed.. good job ground was rock hard and I overheard one of the crew discussing landing after. After the B17 it was the P51 Contrary Mary and what suprising letdown act as no aeros IIRC and dull natural metal just didn’t work against the sky compared to the olive drab of the B17.

Duxford I did Friday as these days  no smart phone means no tickets can be bought, still i wasn’t moaning as the cost saving meant I could spend more on books – I noted there were fewer book stalls than the previous year infact maybe only one The Aviation Bookshop but they had some superb multibuy bargains. Speaking to the campsite warden they normally get alot of Duxford visitors but they  were noticeably quieter than normal and hardly any overseas visitors..  I was intrigued that the TFC Fiat CR42 has now been disassembled compared to last year when it was visually complete and engine inhibited, Choosing my words carefully; apparently the contracted out work has not been to desired standard and so requires some remedial work , I suspect  therefore it may well need some fabric recovering as well.

So reading into this  is the emphasis increasingly going forward more on volume  GA vintage  (eg. cubs , moths and chippies) rather than big piston warbird resto, This would seem to chime with a the vibe that the UK warbird scene appears  somewhat deflated compared to recent decades and big ticket projects seem to be glacial in progress.

Not seen this style on a Ju88, there is an unfamiliar vibe about the style of construction such that I get a vibe it could be French airframe, on account of the construction being somewhat eccentric with some very fine rivet pitches and then pitch changes significantly along stringers also several unnecessarily different profile stringers and the lightening holes smack of final desperation to keep airframe weight down. It’s like this area of airframe has had various manf mods to make it stiffer and/or the design is not one of efficient rationalized mass production its complex for no good design reason in my eyes.  There are traces of light blue like Germans and French used. 

Also that piston is i think too small for aero engine.

As mentioned earlier very similar to Harvard  – hows about T 28 trojan? – which would explain the paint colour which has a modern look to it.

Looks to have a steel bar balance weight in the small radius leading edge which also appears to be flat bottomed  so suggestive of a frise type control surface normally used on ailerons. They used several visually different styles of control surface balance weights on the Dornier and other German aircraft which should help to narrow it down. if it’s 217 I think likely  outer most part of aileron as other control surfaces appear to be balanced externally.  Bill Gunstons aircraft cutaway book will help but captions cannot be always trusted to be correct.