This summer, 2006 + two weeks - be sure, is the Chapter 1 release goal & most of the key targets have been met. There are no show-stoppers on the horizon.
AvHistory has frozen its part of the development & is now processing Version 4.0 1% aircraft files.
Visual By CONDOR Paint By BRAVO4
If anyone has been dropping in on the MAW site
http://www.medairwar.com/ they should be seeing, in addition to a new intro page with much more data, a lot more progress shots & videos. Final plane skins should be appearing quite soon.
That being said I will expect there might be an internal debate as to the desirability of a mid-summertime release.
The Hs-123A will be released through Mathias' Ground Crew site
http://www.groundcrewdesign.com later this week as a kind of goodwill preview aircraft.
A short time later a fresh B-17G upgraded by HerbieG will introduce the new Version 4.0 AvHistory 1% flight package.