Orville Albert Wheelon (June 12, 1906 – February 9, 1966) was an aeronautical engineer who invented the Verson-Wheelon process for aircraft sheet-metal forming and who was one of the first to use titanium in modern aircraft construction. The latter work earned him the Wright Brothers Medal in 1951. References American aerospace engineers 1966 deaths 1906 births 20th-century American engineers