PH3 Jason A. Fults / US Navy George Sulich stands astride one of two 333-foot-long steam-powered catapults aimed down the runway at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare center in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

The U.S. Navy tested its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, EMALS, in Virginia. The catapult will launch huge fighter jets into the sky from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.