Winter
Gebr. Winter GmbH & Co.KG
On-Board Devices for Aviation
Jungingen, Germany
Related Winter Pages:
- Airspeed Indicator Operating Range Stickers
- Airspeed Indicators
- Altimeter Scale Rings
- Altimeters
- Flight Hours Counters
- Großkinsky - Variable-Camberflap Rings
- MacCready Rings
- Pitot Tubes & Pressure Sensors
- Slip/Skid Indicators
- Tubing, Connectors and Miscellaneous
- Variometers
- Watch
Overview
Winter has an excellent reputation as a quality manufacturer of aircraft instruments. With all the high tech devices in sailplanes these days, having a reliable mechanical variometer makes sense. It will continue to work perfectly regardless of the status of your glider battery and fuses. Winter is also known for their airspeed indicators, MacCready speed-to-fly rings, altimeters, barographs and accessories for all those products.
History - Involved Right from the Beginning
The three brothers Eugen, Heinrich, and Willi Winter founded the company Gebrüder Winter OHG on October 1st, 1931 with the air of producing and distributing various meteorological instruments. In 1935 the building in the "Hauptstrasse" as place of business and headquarter was bought and extended various times during the following decades.
The young company soon founded the right track by developing and constructing flight instruments in addition to the meteorological instruments and a time when sports flying was still very rare. Together with the sport flying field, Messrs. Winter were developing more and more and grew into specialists in flight instruments.
Today Winter flight instruments are used all over the world. The precision of the instruments and their high reliability as well as the prompt service regarding control and overhaul are requested by manufacturers and proprietors of planes.
The Company
Flight instruments must ensure a safe flight and afford the pilot the opportunity of exploiting the capabilities of his aircraft to the fullest. The requirement placed on instruments of this nature in regard to measuring accuracy, insensitivity to outside influences (vibration, acceleration, fluctuations in temperature, etc.) and operational reliability are stringent in the extreme.
Behind The Glass
The August/September 2013 edition of Sailplane & Gliding magazine featured a nice 3-page article about Winter. Click on the image below to view the article.
Founder Heinrich Winter with his sons, Hans, Helmut and Edwin Winter, all of them have led the company in the second generation, and with his daughter Franziska.(RTL) | Assembly hall in the 1960s. | Meteorograph from the 1930s. |
Photos from Winter's Headquarters in Jungingen, Germany
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Airspeed Assembly | Altimeter Assembly | Variometer Assembly | Mobile Test Kit | Spare Part Production | Quality Management |
Company Overview Video
This page will give you an overview of the range of flight instruments Winter produces.
Special Instrument Dial Colors
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