Played some Air Hockey tonite actually.
Reguarding the puck flying off the table, it's my experience that the weight of the puck and its condition have a lot to do with its ability to stay on the table. Those cheap tables seem to come with light pucks that have a tendancy to not stay flat against the table thus not very hard to get em airborn. Also when the puck gets nicked over and over on the edges after a while it doesn't make a good seal on the table and the same thing happens.
Yes I've spent a fortune in the arcade playing over my lifetime.
All non-scientific studies of course.
