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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hearne, Peter 1927 births 2014 deaths Aerodynamicists Alumni of Cranfield University Alumni of Loughborough University British European Airways Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering General Electric Company People from Sunderland Engineers from Tyne and Wear People of the British Overseas Airways Corporation People from Wateringbury
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(14 November 1927 – 24 January 2014) was a British engineer, who developed a lot of the technology for head-up display
A head-up display, or heads-up display, also known as a HUD () or head-up guidance system (HGS), is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints. The origin of the name stems from a ...
s (HUD). He was Chairman of GEC Avionics.
Early life
He was born inSunderland
Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ...
.
He attended the Loughborough College of Technology (now Loughborough University
Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public university, public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university sinc ...
) where he studied Aeronautical Engineering, and Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University
Cranfield University is a postgraduate-only public research university in the United Kingdom that specialises in science, engineering, design, technology and management. Cranfield was founded as the College of Aeronautics (CoA) in 1946. Throug ...
) from 1947.
Career
He joinedBOAC
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned national airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services throughout World War II.
After the ...
in 1949 and BEA in 1954, where he worked as an aerodynamicist.
GEC Avionics
He became deputy general manager of Marconi Avionics in 1960. He became general manager in 1966.Personal life
He married in April 1952 and had three sons; his wife was the secretary of the technical director of BOAC. He lived atWateringbury
Wateringbury is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The Wateringbury Stream flows into the River Medway just above Bow Bridge. It formerly powered three watermills in the village, one of which survives. The Wa ...
. He enjoyed gliding. He died in 2014./ref>
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