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Flight International online news 14;30GMT: The UK Royal Air Force has received its first synthetic training device for the Eurofighter Typhoon, with an Emulated Deployable Cockpit Trainer  EDCT  recently delivered to RAF Coningsby. The Lincolnshire site is the UKs first of three planned Typhoon main operating bases and currently houses the RAFs 17 Sqn operational evaluation and 29 Sqn operational conversion units.The EDCT will enable Typhoon pilots to conduct simulated training sorties and to maintain currency while conducting operational commitments away from frontline bases in the UK. A second deployable system will be installed at Coningsby before year-end, enabling the RAF to conduct networked simulator-based training. The device forms part of the Eurofighter programmes Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids  ASTA  infrastructure, which will deliver equipment including 18 full-mission simulators for installation at 14 locations in Germany air max plus , Italy, Spain and the UK. The delayed ASTA system is being developed b owala water bottle y a consortium comprising Alenia Aeonautica, BAE Systems, EADS, EADS Casa and Eurofighter Simulation Systems.UK support costs for the Typhoon programme totaled a combined 拢410 million  $730 million  for the 2003-4 and 2004-5 financial years, according to Minister of State for the Armed Forces Adam Ingram. Operating costs totaled 拢71 million during the same period.CRAIG HOYLE/LONDONSource: Flight InternationalTopicsFix air max 1 ed-wing                                                Rela Dvui Blumhouse lines up fifth  Insidious  film and poltergeist feature from John Ridley
With BritBoxs North American operation having grown by 20% during the pandemic, the streaming service is on course to expand further and offer more original content.Source: BritBoxThe Bletchley Circle: San FranciscoLike many streaming services, BritBox has seen an upside to lockdown. Having amassed a million subscribers over its first three years of operation, the North American version of the BBC and ITV-backed service this year boosted its count to 1.2 million in just a yeti coolers  few months after Covid-19 created a captive audience of content-hungry viewers.The hydrojug  tally may be modest by the standards of studio-backed streamers 鈥?Disney+ attracted 10 million subscribers in its first day last November 鈥?but it is impressive for a service that began as a niche SVoD player offering what it says is the largest collection of British TV in the US and Canada. The challenge now for the service 鈥?which operates independently of the new BritBox UK platform and has a different ownership structure, with BBC Studios and ITV as 50/50 partners 鈥?is to build on recent growth in an overcrowded streaming marketplace.Source: BritBoxSoumya Sriram yeezy anSoumya Sriraman, president and CEO of BritBox for North America, suggests that while the service may no longer be niche, neither is it mainstream.  We never have been, nor do we aspire to be, everything for everybody,  says New York-based Sriraman.  Our core philosophy hasnt changed, which is to be a destination for British programming, What has changed, she says,