Mythbusters co-host Jamie Hyneman listens to Petty Officer 3rd Class Peter Carnicello, of the Blue Angels public affairs office, as he explains the effects of a sonic boom on a trailer Feb. 19, 2009, on the Barry M. Goldwater Range east of the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz. The Blue Angels invited the popular Discovery Channel program to test the myth that a sonic boom, caused when aircraft travel faster than the speed of sound, will break glass. The episode, filmed Febuary 2009, is scheduled to air June 10, 2009, at 9 p.m. EST on The Discovery Channel.

Photo by Gunnery Sgt. Bill Lisbon

Mythbusters episode filmed in Yuma to air June 10

4 Jun 2009 | Gunnery Sgt. Bill Lisbon Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION YUMA, Ariz. -- The results of an experiment filmed on a Yuma training range to test whether a sonic boom from a jet would shatter glass is scheduled to air June 10, 2009, at 9 p.m. EST on The Discovery Channel.

In February 2009, popular television show “Mythbusters” teamed up with the Blue Angels and the air station to conduct the test in a section of the Barry M. Goldwater Range used for supersonic flights.

Two Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornets made multiple supersonic passes at altitudes as low as 200 feet directing the sonic boom toward the ground where various type of glass was staged.

A sonic boom, which sounds and feels like a large explosion, occurs when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier by traveling at least 750 mph.