has received credit as CAS for building up the RAAF's strength to 70 squadrons by 1945. After the war he played a personal part in improving education within the service, including the establishment of RAAF College, along similar lines to the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and the Royal Australian Naval College, as well as RAAF Staff College. He encouraged local industry to design and build trainer aircraft for the RAAF and produce more sophisticated combat aircraft under licence from overseas manufacturers. This led to the Winjeel basic trainer and Australian industry co-partnership in the production of the CAC Sabre and Canberra jets; such local participation has continued to figure in major RAAF aircraft acquisitions. One of his last directions as CAS was the formation of RAAF Museum at Point Cook, where it is still based. Jones refused to update the command structure of the Air Force from one based on region to one of function, something his successor, Hardman, would accomplish, and has been criticised for a systemic resistance to change. Jones was described in Horner's The Commanders as "a steady, sincere but colourless leader". Stephens found him "a good and decent man, who had overcome considerable personal hardship in his youth to achieve exceptional professional success" but "neither an inspiring leader, nor a notable thinker". Nevertheless, his Plan D for the RAAF's post-war organisation remained the service's blueprint until the early 1970s. Notes References Further reading 1896 births 1992 deaths Australian aviators Military personnel from Victoria (Australia) Australian World War I flying aces Australian Companions of the Order of the Bath Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire People from Victoria (Australia) Australian recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) Royal Australian Air Force air marshals of World War II Australian Labor Party politicians Liberal Reform Group politicians Australian Army soldiers Australian military personnel of World War I