A few new magazines came in and I went through some more older ones, so I'll pick up the thread again.
"Air Tents" are much more popular in Europe than they are here. Land Rover Monthly recently featured this air tent:
For those not familiar with air tents, instead of tent poles they are held up with tubes that get filled with air. Pump them up and the tent is erected. Let the air out and the tent collapses.
That's a ground tent; I haven't seen any roof top air tents in the Land Rover magazines yet, but here's one:
It's made by am Austrian company called GentleTent:
https://gentletent.com/en/gt-roof
How it erects:
A few more images from the web site:
What do people think of the idea?
I was approached by a company in 2019 about doing a roof top air tent. This was a U.S. company that had connections with an air tent manufacturer in Europe and they were considering doing an Air RTT for the U.S. market. I did some concept drawings for them but ultimately decided not to go ahead with the project at the time. They may still do it, from time to time they mention it to me.