An insulation product especially suited for use as an aircraft insulation
includes a blanket of randomly oriented entangled glass fibers bonded
together by a thermosetting binder and having a mean diameter of about
1+/-0.25 microns. The blanket has a density between about 0.25 and about
1.5 pounds per cubic foot and a thickness between about 0.35 inches and
about 2.0 inches. The blanket, exclusive of anything else, has an average
machine direction tensile strength of at least 0.6 pounds/inch of blanket
width and an average cross machine direction tensile strength of at least
0.3 pounds/inch of blanket length; a transverse airflow resistance between
about 300 Rayls and about 1800 Rayls; and a thermal conductivity equal to
or less than about 0.32 BTU-in/hr-ft.sup.2 -.degree. F. The glass fibers
of the blanket have a biodissolution rate in excess of 150 ng/cm.sup.2
/hr.