Air Lift Part Two. 

I had, what my 10 year old would call and "epic fail" with the air lift. I consulted many articles and papers of the scientific variety before building my pump. I did not however refer to any Internet resources about people who had actually built them. Big reminder of theoretic construction and operation and real world construction and operation. Within about 2 minutes of looking online at folks who had built air lifts, I could see what my issues were. Maybe try again next week.