Somebody should be getting paid for this work.

[FrankB]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

If we can't send money to Team Daidalos, that doesn't necessarily mean we can't help pay for new content.

Browsing around the IL-2 communities around the world I have discovered the following Czech site (Thanks Google Translate!) where they are fundraising for HE-177.

The thread is a bit messy but if I got it correctly, the external model is already in works/payed for and if they are satisfied with the result, there might be another round of fundraising for cockpit(s) to make it actually flyable.