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Henry Verner Kjellson (8 August 1891 – 1 November 1962) was Sweden's first aeronautical engineer in the armed forces and later flight director of the 1st rank at the Swedish Air Force. Henry Kjellson belonged to the Kjellson family from Östergötland and studied civil engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. On November 1, 1917 he joined the Field Telegraph Corps as Sweden's first flight engineer in the service of the Swedish Armed Forces. He designed and modified, himself and in collaboration with others, a large number of aircraft. The most famous is Ö 1 Tummelisa, which he designed in 1919 after sketches by Gösta von Porat.

Henry Kjellson participated in his first accident investigation as early as 1916. In 1920 a permanent accident commission was appointed and in 1927 he became its chairman. He became one of the country's most experienced investigators of aircraft accidents and, among other things, led the investigation of the Bäckebo bomb, the V-2 that crashed in June 1944 in Småland. After the results of the investigation were handed over to England, Kjellson was awarded the Order of the British Empire. He was awarded the Swedish Aeronautical Society's Thulin Medal in gold in 1948. Kjellson became involved in archery in 1931 and found that the tools could be developed. He designed bows and arrows of steel and in 1934 became world champion at the World Archery Championships in Båstad. When the Swedish Archery Association was founded in 1940, he became its chairman, a post he held until 1960. From 1948 to 1957 he was also president of the "Féderation Internationale de Tir á l'Arc".

Already during his studies, Kjellson was interested in research in the Bible and the basic writings of the other major religions. He wrote a series of speculative books on ancient technology and lost civilizations. Henry Kjellson was from 1918 married to Tina Svensson (1893–1984), who was also a successful archer, including Swedish champion in 1940. He was the father of actor Ingvar Kjellson.