The 1952 edition also cost 2/6, had a pink cover, with a marshaller guiding Viscount G-AMAV while S-51 G-AJOV flies overhead. Registrations go up to G-AMPC. My very first spot was Messenger G-AKKC on 13 April 1952, in which I got my first flight, from Westwood airfield, Peterborough.

My first Observer’s Book is also 1952.

I have to come to the UK around that time. So maybe …

It would not be unique if local people found a dead pilot in the cockpit of a fighter, and then buried him under rocks some distance from the wreck.
I think of the case of Owen Watkinson, whose Venom crashed in 1958 on the Saiq Plateau in Oman. I described the site here:
https://sites.google.com/site/lgarey/jebel-akhdar
(near the end of my article)
Owen was at first buried under a stone cairn some hundreds of meters from his aircraft, then reburied in a rock ledge and cemented in some time later.
I attach a photo I took in 2008 when I went up to the site again for the 50th anniversary of his crash. It shows the remains of the cairn. You see his new grave in the article.

Richard: is that a desert or an icecap – I can’t see anything!

The back end of this one is where you put the photographer.
OV10B F-AZKM, Lausanne 2011

OK Jim. I think we agree now! I have replied to your PM.