Scaled Composites, founded by renowned aircraft designer Burt Rutan, historically has kept the timing of important test flights under wraps partly to prevent crowds from gathering at the Mojave airport, and partly to avoid putting undue pressure on project managers to launch or take off.
The FAA has been under lots of pressure to improve project management after a history of delays in implementing improvements and cost over-runs.
Last week a Washington pressure group, the Project on Government Oversight, released a Pentagon report from last year setting out operational difficulties with the Predator.
One company, however, was smart enough to ignore the industrywide peer pressure and abandon its ras project in the mid-1990s.
Her project involves high pressure research of correlated electron systems.
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The fatal pressure release took place at a project known as Intake No. 3, which is under way near Lake Mead.
One can imagine that there will be some political pressure in Washington to accelerate the project, to ensure the US is the one "carrying the ball downfield".
Arafat is trying to bring international pressure to bear on Israel to abandon the housing project.
For Salmon, the next two days will be a pressure cooker, he said, as he sweats out the project's final hours.
"The main objective was to find an alternative income for the local community in the surrounding village and forest, and also relieve the pressure on the forest of people cutting timber, " says project manager Amiri Saidi.
Even if Russia caves in to American pressure, Iran, for many reasons, will not abandon the project.
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