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| Zistel, Early Days From Early Bird's CHIRP. |
Zistel, 1957 From Early Bird's CHIRP. |
Zistel, 1961 From Early Bird's CHIRP. |
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1916 "Zip" (Errol H.) Zistel was one of Walter's students at the Curtiss school in Newport News, VA. |
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| SOPWITH F-1 "CAMEL USAF MUSEUM WEBSITE |
EARLY YEARS GALLERY USAF MUSEUM WEBSITE |
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1918 Two U.S. Air Service squadrons, the 17th and 148th, used the Sopwith "Camel" in combat while assigned to British forces during the summer and fall of 1918. Such famous U.S. pilots as George Vaughn (our nation's second-ranking Air Service ace to survive the war), Elliot White Springs, Errol Zistel and Larry Callahan were members of the 17th and 148th. A third U.S. unit, the 185th Aero Squadron, used the Camel as a night fighter on the American front during the last month of the war.
On June 16, 1957, Early Bird Major General Errol H. Zistel, Chief of Staff, Ohio Air National Guard, was honored on the occasion of his retirement by a big military show at Mansfield Municipal Airport, Mansfield, Ohio. The military demonstration also commemorated the 50th year of military aviation and the 30th anniversary of the Ohio Air National Guard. Many newspapers gave feature space to the event. On hand for the occasion was Maj. Gen. Frank P. Lahm Ret., holder of pilots license #2 and former president of the Early Birds, who presented Zistel with the pin of membership in the Early Birds. Lahm reviewed Zistel's flying activities from the time he first soloed at Sandusky in 1914, through 
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