Post Racing Years
Turner established a flying school during World War II that, ultimately, trained some 3,000 pilots. He was also associated with the Porterfield Airplane Company, of Kansas City, Missouri. For a time Porterfield aircraft were marketed as Porterfield-Turners.
Later in life, Turner founded the Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp, a large fixed base operator in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1947, the CAB granted authority to operate Turner Airlines, later renamed Lake Central Airlines.
He was also an honorary official with the Indianapolis 500 car race for many years.
He is interred at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
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Famous quotes containing the words post, racing and/or years:
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Seventy years have I lived
No ragged beggar man,
Seventy years have I lived,
Seventy years man and boy,
And never have I danced for joy.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)