I cannot support my own usage with any statistics but throughout my “aviation life” until relatively recently the pilot’s “office” was the cockpit. My sense is that I became more used to flight deck with the americanisation of the descriptions. Although your quotation disproves that theory. Even in US parlance flight deck does not describe the “office” in a fast jet, does it?

Interflug – “Surely the question that the American government should be asking itself is why these seemingly disgruntled personnel are repeatedly passing on this kind of material to outside organisations.” – and to find them and kick them out of the military immediately with the accompanying permanent stain on their record…….

And we are all contributing to the daily pufffing of a story which doesn’t deserve it. After all, what have actually learned in thousands of leaked diplomatic documents that we either didn’t already know, couldn’t have guessed at and are not surprised by?

It’s another media field day!

All very sad and particularly for one, among many, who have watched the development of this truly iconic aircraft from the P1127 at Farnborogh about 50 years ago to its demise from the RAF this week.:(

A point of information concerning your first sentence. How do we know how he is being held inside Wandsworth?

In answer to BB – neither. He is certainly no hero in any definition of the word I understand. As for a public menace – I think that is ascribing to him far more than he deserves. He is an irritation, little more.

Spellbound, eh? Well, each to his own – personally I have found 90% of what we have read rather unsurprising and pedestrian.

Exactly. It sums up the whole problem in a nutshell.