The first F-22 Raptors will be arriving at Holloman Air Force Base in June, and Air Force officials are telling residents of the Tularosa Basin to get ready for an increase in the number of sonic booms, the Alamogordo Daily News reported.

And to help everybody get used to it, Holloman is bringing in T-38 trainers to help shatter the silence between now and April, the Daily News reported.

The trainer flights are designed "to familiarize local communities to sonic boom noise caused by supersonic flights," according to a news release from the base.

Beginning this month, there will be three supersonic T-38 flights a week over Alamogordo, Tularosa and Carrizozo, and faster-than-sound flights will extend to Ruidoso and Cloudcroft in April, the release said.

A sonic boom occurs when an object moves faster than the speed of sound, which is 750 mph at sea level, generating air pressure waves similar to the wash preceding a ship, the Daily News reports.

So, get those ear plugs now and survive what they used to call "the sound of freedom." 

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