Peter Hearne

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 attended the Loughborough College of Technology (now Loughborough University) where he studied Aeronautical Engineering, and Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University) from 1947.

He joined BOAC in 1949 and BEA in 1954, where he worked as an aerodynamicist.

He became deputy general manager of Marconi Avionics in 1960.

He married in April 1952 and had three sons; his wife was the secretary of the technical director of BOAC.