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Imagine, if you will....a fully functional Boeing 747, fully fueled (but with no handbooks or manuals to explain its operation) delivered to the Wright Brothers, in 1903.
The airplane has: Metallurgy unknown at the time. Aluminum alloys never imagined. Electronics that don't exist yet. Titanium parts...wiring...exotic fuels, and lubricants. Even the rubber in the tires is exotic, for the era.