Cosworth races into AE1rospace

July 27, 2006 Cosworth is a name that has been associated with auto racing at the highest level since Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin got together in 1958, most commonly in Formula One where its engines have won 176 Grands Prix plus countless competitions from World Rally Championship to World Sports Car Championship to World Touring Car Championship to CART/Indy titles. Now there’s a new engine from Northamptonshire that looks set to do very well in an entirely new sphere – UAV propulsion. Over the next decade the market for reconnaissance & surveillance UAVs is expected to be worth US$11 billion, so Cosworth’s new AE1 engine attracted a lot of attention from key international players in the UAV sector at this year’s Farnborough International Air Show. It’s not the big snarling four-stroke you might imagine wearing the Cosworth name – it’s a single cylinder 100 cc two stroke.

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