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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
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GEC Avionics News
{{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
head-up display
A head-up display, or heads-up display, also known as a HUD (), 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 pilot being able to view informa ...
s (HUD). He was Chairman of GEC Avionics.
Early life
He was born inSunderland
Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...
.
He attended the Loughborough College of Technology (now Loughborough University
Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...
) where he studied Aeronautical Engineering, and Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University
, mottoeng = After clouds light
, established = 1946 - College of Aeronautics 1969 - Cranfield Institute of Technology (gained university status by royal charter) 1993 - Cranfield University (adopted current name)
, type = Public research uni ...
) from 1947.
Career
He joinedBOAC
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned 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 passi ...
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 ...
. He enjoyed gliding. He died in 2014./ref>
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GEC Avionics News
{{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