It said it still hoped to find buyers for its fourth, fifth and sixth test airplanes.
A customary procedure is to build several test airplanes solely to verify the design.
Previous wind tunnels were built primarily to test airplanes and missiles and had wind coming in from only one direction and at a constant speed.
Sporting aviation dates back to the early days of flying, when aviation pioneers used distance and speed contests as a means of developing and testing airplanes.
"We didn't have the chance to test this airplane day and night, we never flew over the oceans.
A new fabric that he created for Designtex, which Lufthansa is testing for airplane seat cushions, is free of poisonous dyes and fibres; you can eat it, if you like.
We checked into the Sanderling for a long spring weekend last year, looking for a break from Washington, a five-hour drive to the north, and a chance to take our sons, Andrew, 6, and Ned, then 2 1/2, to Kitty Hawk, where the Wright Brothers began testing their airplane designs a century ago, leading to their first successful, controlled flight in 1903.
"We've been fighting for our customers on this issue for years — testing an airplane packed full of Kindles, working with the F.A.A., and serving as the device manufacturer on this committee," Drew Herdener, a spokesman for Amazon, which makes the Kindle.
The Federal Aviation Administration had never tested the airplane manufacturer's assumption that a pilot could bring it down at a rate of about three and a half feet per second; this plane came down at about 13 feet per second, causing severe hull damage that resulted in the plane's taking on water, the board said.
