What 3 Seconds on a Navy Catapult Feels Like

Welcome aboard! Today, we're on the flight deck  of the United States Ship Theodore Roosevelt, just   inboard of the tower or what we call "the island"  of the aircraft carrier, pointed aft towards our   director, who's telling us to come forward. Here we  go. Coming forward. There he is. Coming forward. Now turn right. More right turn. A little more...and stop.  Our director repositioned and now you can see   his shadow on the bottom left corner of the screen,  and his hands are waving signaling come forward.   Now we been passed off to another director, who's at  our 1:00, who's telling us to come forward. It's   a little bumpy as we taxi over the two wire.  Coming right...and stop. As we wait, you can see   he jet on catapult 4, which is the outboard waist catapult, taxi forward and get ready for tension. Meanwhile, right off the nose, you see another EA-18G Growler parked right next to an FA-18 Foxtrot Super Hornet. The key "reci" feature between a  Growler and a Super Hornet is just the wing tip pods. If you look at the Growler, it has ALQ-218 wing tip receiver pods, which are oddly shaped looking canoes on the wingtips. Signature move. Still have  my lucky pen. No big deal. whereas super hornets have LAU-127s, which are missile rail launchers. Just waiting on the director. Here we go. Coming forward...coming forward...now to the right. A little more to the right...there's the director. Now come forward. Coming forward. A little more to the right.  Coming forward..and stop! The jet on cat 4 is up on the power and you can hear and certainly feel it  from behind the jet blast deflector. Both engines and MAX afterburner produce a combined 41,400 lb of thrust, which is enough thrust to literally make my teeth rattle in a closed cockpit from over  40 yards away.