Tandem cockpits spaced by more than 2 metres

[Hotel-Mama]

I was amused by the recently announced CAA guidance on recreational flying in England:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-recreational-general-aviation/coronavirus-covid-19-recreational-general-aviation
The third option allows "flights in aircraft where social distancing measures can be maintained - such as tandem cockpits spaced by more than 2 metres..."
The mind boggles. Has there ever been any aircraft with tandem cockpits spaced more than two metres apart?!

[Maoraigh1]

Two metres apart looks irrelevant in a closed cockpit light aircraft, where the same air is being shared for ~ 1 hour or more.
Two metres apart looks irrelevant in a tandem open cockpit aircraft such as a Tiger Moth, where it is likely the same air isn't being shared.
(How far apart the are I can't remember, of I ever knew.)

[Jan Olieslagers]

Handley-Page Hampden, perhaps :) ? Nobody cared to specify both positions should be facing forward, after all ...

[Legalapproach]

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/275x183/image_69922ca45cf3ef239b093b297b7a215c1c07d212.png

[jimjim1]

This must be quite close

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/360x240/s64_crane_b961f1be93e40e36d5beb202e5434e5a1c994bf5.jpg

[Wee Willy Winky]

This must be quite close
Closer than 2 metres?

[Jhieminga]

https://live.staticflickr.com/7435/14199979755_de2e51da9e_c.jpg

[treadigraph]

We need to start building these again


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x683/harry_measures_pilotpix_pv202_2_1_1024x683_d393f99a94eae1775 2765b4eb9c4124495534a77.jpg

We are! I think at least two current rebuild projects will appear as two seaters.

[Chuck Glider]

We need to start building these again


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x683/harry_measures_pilotpix_pv202_2_1_1024x683_d393f99a94eae1775 2765b4eb9c4124495534a77.jpg
Is that the Mekon in the back seat? :)

[Mechta]

Fairey Battle

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1598x1198/fairey_battle_i_raaf_l5156_over_the_gippsland_coastline_of_v ictoria_during_wwii_01_db7856efa3db54ea2bff2f8003f2ac1497a0d 7d4.jpg
Fairey Battle
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/500x452/df9baf554441_e4e5aa008893e3c556b0849eec0f9dad5cd9afc1.jpg
SL-2P (Twin Blanik) Tandem cockpits spaced two metres apart (or thereabouts)

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/730x457/gloster_meteor_f8_prone_pilot_1_0cd91cb568fef9e0977e60478d62 02c900886fa0.jpg
Prone Meteor

[Hotel-Mama]

There are some great suggestions here, though thankfully soon to be rendered irrelevant. Mechta your suggestion of a Fairey Battle has an even better variant for socially distanced training:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Aircraft_of_the_Royal_Air_Force_1939-1945-_Fairey_Battle_CH2141.jpg