Thanks to breakthrough technology that prevents moisture build-up against the airframe, a Chinook outfitted with the ITAB will have dramatically less downtime due to corrosion.

If you’ve spent time on a Chinook, you’ve most likely experienced the sagging blanket problem - blankets that have pulled free of the airframe and sag from the ceiling and side panels.

Making Cocoon’s ITAB lightweight, air-permeable, hydrophobic, and oleophobic took years of painstaking R&D, but the end result hasn’t just modernized aviation blankets, it’s revolutionized them.

Making a high-performance aviation blanket that’s lightweight is difficult enough. But the real challenge is to keep it from gaining weight over time.

Cocoon’s Improved Thermal Acoustic Blanket (ITAB) for the CH-47 manages to combine properties that on the surface seem incompatible. It took years of R&D, but thanks to a lot of trial and error, and some highly technical new textiles, we were able to make possible what at first seemed impossible.

Having spent years getting lamination right, we know first-hand how challenging it is. We tried over 150 different iterations before landing on the right combination of elements for our aviation blanket.