page_title: Peter Hearne
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Hearne / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: F-18 Heads Up Display (HUD) with gun symbology. "Pipper" is on target (in this case an F-22 Raptor).
context_page_description: Peter Ambrose Hearne FREng was a British engineer, who developed a lot of the technology for head-up displays. He was Chairman of GEC Avionics.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Head-up display on an F-18
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