> Wikipedia seems to think that an "air amplifier" is a kind of
> pneumatic piloted valve/fluid amplifier or pneumatic equivalent of a
> transistor

Sounds to me very much like it is operating rather like the vacuum
source for the desoldering tool in a Weller iron - blow air across a
venturi and you draw more with it.
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