The ladies at the counter would have found some other word for it, some word other than “synchronicity.” Not having seen so much as an Airfix Model of the aircraft previously, to have encountered a large scale model, suspended in the air above a shop was unexpected. It was even more unexpected to discover that it bore the number of the squadron with which my father worked. A de Havilland Sea Vixen bearing the markings of 890 Squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service which had been based at HMS …