Abstract: An aircraft fuselage insulation blanket of the flexible type including an insulator core (24), including a predetermined volume contained by a vented flexible blanket casing (26) having a vented plurality of seam joined tailored panels (30), in which the seams are hermetically sealed. The panels include a flexible encasement material (29), having at least direct sealing properties to form hermetic seals (33), including at least a flexible plastic barrier film (52). The casing (26) has at least one vent (34), attached to at least one hermetic joined gas flow adapter (36), to displace air and to be connected by gas flow connector (38) to a substantially inert gas pressure source (39), to inflate blanket (14). Pressure source (39) includes a modular control (37), by which the blanket can be regulated to a predetermined substantially positive pressure relative to the cabin compartment (10) atmosphere's pressure, to displace and to occlude moist air from the blanket.

Abstract: A method of forming a laminated structure in which an outer layer of hardenable material and a carrier layer are respectively bonded to opposite faces of a preformed substantially shape-retaining barrier layer. The face of the carrier layer to which one of the opposite faces of the barrier layer is bonded is formed with projecting and recess portions and the barrier layer is bonded thereto in such a manner so as to adhere substantially only to the projecting portions without filling the recess portions. For instance, when the carrier layer is formed from a sheet of woven or knitted textile material, the barrier layer will adhere only to portions of the yarns or threads at the one face of the sheet substantially without filling the interstices between the threads.