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After obtaining a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1977, he worked for Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd, working on missile guidance, before moving to a lectureship in the Department of Electronics at the University of Southampton. He was appointed as Professor of Avionics in the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield University in 1990 and moved to the University of ºù«Ӱҵ to the Chair of Computer Systems Engineering in 2001, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor.

He has developed five flight simulators and published extensively on flight simulation including the textbooks Principles of Flight Simulation and Flight Simulation Software – design, Development and Testing, published in January 2023. He served on the Flight Simulation Committee of the Royal Aeronautical Society for over 20 years and has also served on the Editorial Board and the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society. David Allerton has been a member of several national advisory committees for aerospace. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology and a Past-Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. 

In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Flight Simulation Medal for outstanding long-term contributions, achievements or service in the field of flight simulation. His research interests include flight simulation, real-time computer systems and computer graphics.