Ansett board until the early 1970s. Jones pursued a political career in parallel to his aviation industry work, unsuccessfully standing for Liberal Party pre-selection in the seat of Flinders in 1952. In 1958, he left the Liberals in favour of the Labor Party, contesting the seat of Henty at the 1961 federal election. He switched parties as his views were too leftist for the Liberals, declaring "They got rather nasty with me and wouldn't give me a fair go, so I resigned and joined the Labor Party". He pursued an energetic campaign in Henty, but lost to his Liberal opponent by fewer than 3,000 primary votes. Jones left the Labor Party in 1965 due to dissatisfaction with its aviation policy. In 1967, he contested the Corio by-election as a candidate of the Liberal Reform Group, running as an opponent of the Vietnam War. He was unsuccessful, polling 1.8 percent of the primary vote. Jones also evinced an interest in unidentified flying objects, having first encountered unexplained aerial phenomena at Warrnambool, Victoria, in 1930. He reported witnessing another UFO in October 1957, but admitted that he was "loath to talk about it publicly lest people should think I was either an incompetent witness or getting a little screwy in the head". In the mid-1960s he patronised the Commonwealth Aerial Phenomena Investigation Organisation and joined the Victorian UFO Research Society. Jones published his autobiography, From Private to Air Marshal, in 1988. He was Australia's last surviving World War I ace when he died in Melbourne on 24 August 1992, aged 95. Legacy Jones' ten years as CAS constitutes the longest continuous term of any RAAF chief. Despite his longevity in the position, he is still primarily known for two events early in his tenure, the surprise circumstance of his appointment, and his feud with Bill Bostock that lasted until the end of World War II. The conflict between its two senior officers has been described by David Horner as "disastrous" for the RAAF, and by Alan Stephens as having "diminished its standing" in the eyes of its Allies. Jones stated in his autobiography that he had never intrigued for the role of CAS and would have worked loyally for Bostock if the latter had been appointed. Beyond these controversies, Jones significantly influenced the Air Force's development during and after the war. He was honoured for his work running EATS in 1940–1942 and