TEST PILOT ON WAY TO N.Z.
PLANS TO ENTER POLITICS (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, March 10. A British Ministry of Supply test pilot, who will arrive in New Zealand next week, plans to enter politics there. He is Mr James Moore, aged 31, who has tested military jet aircraft for five years. “I have crashed the sound barrier several timetf, but after I had to bail out on a test flight recently I decided to crash politics in New Zealand as a Nationalist,” he said. Mr Moore said he had decided to change his occupation when the aircraft he was testing started to disintegrate at 7000 ft. “I was down to 2uooit before I could fight my way out and pull the ripcord of my parachute. I decided on the way down that it was time I entered politics. I have been stooging around at about 600 miles an hour for too long,” he said. Mr Moore, who served with the R.N.Z.A.F. Mosquito Night Fighter Squadron in World War 11, arrived in Sydney in the liner Otranto yesterday. He will leave for Auckland in the Monowai on Thursday.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 5
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