Peter Hearne
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Peter Ambrose Hearne FREng (14 November 1927 – 24 January 2014) was a British engineer, who developed a lot of the technology for head-up displays (HUD). He was Chairman of GEC Avionics.
Early life
He was born in Sunderland.
He attended the Loughborough College of Technology (now Loughborough University) where he studied Aeronautical Engineering, and Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University) from 1947.
Career
Personal life
He married in April 1952 and had three sons; his wife was the secretary of the technical director of BOAC. He lived at Wateringbury. He enjoyed gliding. He died in 2014.[1]