I agree with you. The plane was designed for becoming a long range and long lasting missions, and the prototypes were prepared for leading to a fully operative aircraft, so the controls and maybe the wiring, circuit breakers, bus lines, and so on were designed and installed, but many details were left for final production units. EG : the prototypes (particularly the first one) were equipped with a bunch of instruments - as thermocouples, microphones, vibration sensors, etc - for plane behavior assessment, occupying spaces designed for other 2 operators on future versions. The question is, for me, will this model be tailored only on museum prototype N1 or also on final - never completed - version ?
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