Nice pics

Give me a minute and i'll upload my DC-3 photo

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I did notice when looking at "Mossy Back" The rudder and elevators had what appeared to be a cloth type tape (sort of like drywall tape) that covered the rivets and screws.
The rest of it appeared to be metal. Is that what you are refering too?

Your absolutely right Doug...the entire moveable control surface was fabric covered.
The rest of the aircraft was metal.
That is a nice site www.ceconite.com.
A lot of the fabric work for DC3 aircraft we operated was done at Hamilton, Ontario.
Kingcity had a company which did fabric as well.

fretnstuff: the only time I saw metal control surfaces on
                a DC3 was if it was a Gate Guardian.  I
                 believe that was because of inclement
                 weather and vandalism.

Cheers....Happy Landings....Doug

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I get the same feeling looking at the Tiger Moth & many other vintage types.

When I first started in the business we recovered a complete Tiger Moth. This was before Ceconite or any other heatshrink coverings were available & done in the old traditional way. Helping with this taught me the trade. Our chief engineer's wife had worked in the fabric shop at Gatwick during WWII. (He later became my boss.) I enjoyed fabric work & went on to be responsible for recovering control surfaces for the DH Dove & Heron. The customer removed them & often sent the complete set to us for refurbishing. Many examples of these popular aircraft were flying around with my ailerons, elevators, rudder & flaps on them. Happy days.

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This brings back so many fond memories. My first job in aviation was as the "oily rag" at the local flying club. The wages were terrible but I learned so much in the 2 years I was there. When one of our aircraft was due for major overhaul I persuaded the boss to let me help when not needed elsewhere. It was a beautiful summer & we did the fabric outside the hangar in the sunshine. I can remember laying on the grass under the wings waiting for the point of the long stringing needle to appear through the fabric. The wings were supported on trestles & my job was to pull the needle through before carefully pushing it back & so on. We had to do every single rib on 4 wings in this way. Each rib was "strung" with special waxed stringing cord. This stringing was every 2" or so along the rib with a double knot every so many "stitches". I knew how to do it by the time we had finished. It's been a long time but I reckon I could still do it now.