Quote - ........... Interesting that M is doing a WW1 plane. I was wondering whether the new cloth simulator in Blender could be used to stretch the fabric over the wings. Dangit... you got me wondering now....

Try this build or one of the related builds in this branch if it hasn't been tried already since I'm a day late reading this thread.

http://graphicall.org/builds/builds/showbuild.php?action=show&id=669