How early wooden airframes were covered

Would wooden aircraft be covered in latex, or did that come later?

Latex was not the normal early solution; builders chiefly used stretched canvas or doped linen, while also experimenting with paper-based coverings.

An audience member asks whether wooden airframes were covered in latex. Period practice instead used stretched fabric, especially doped Irish linen, laid over the structure in multiple treated layers. Paper coverings were also explored, reflecting how widely engineers searched for light skins and reinforcements. That experimentation included a British investigation of historical Chinese paper armour, an example of designers looking beyond aviation for useful material ideas.