Orville Albert Wheelon (June 12, 1906 – February 9, 1966) was an aeronautical engineer who invented the
Verson-Wheelon process for
aircraft sheet-metal forming[Lascoe, O.D. (1988) Handbook of fabrication processes, ASM International.] and who was one of the first to use
titanium
Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resistant to corrosion in ...
in modern aircraft construction.
[Taubman, P. (2003) Secret empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the hidden story of America's space espionage, Simon and Schuster.] The latter work earned him the
Wright Brothers Medal in 1951.
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American aerospace engineers
1966 deaths
1906 births
20th-century American engineers
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