Mr. Eibel 4/10/11

I left for the Cleveland airport this morning at 5:30 am to catch a 8:30 flight to Chicago. My wife, older son and my father all rode along to drop me off. I made it to the airport to check my bags and get to the gate. The flight out of Cleveland was on time and I made it to Chicago O'Hara International Airport to meet the rest of the administrators from Ohio, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania. I took some photos of O'Hara I will post later. We boarded United flight UA851 bound for Beijing. We flew directly over the Arctic Circle and I hope my pictures turn out of the ocean of ice!!!. Crossed the international date line and covered over 7,000 miles. We flew about ??? mph at typically 36,000 feet. Glad we didn't have any windows open on the plane because the air temperature was -71 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. 13.5 hours on a plane is a long time, but I used that time to watch a couple of movies (tv screens in the back of the seat in front of me), catch up on some school work that needed finishing and had a chance to read for pleasure:). I am missing my family already, both my work family and my wife and kids. The adventure which is before me in China will be worth it and I hope my blog followers enjoy my posts. When I post photos, there will be a link on this blog.

Questions for my Prospect students:
Mr. Eibel flew 7,100 miles on a plane and the trip took 13.5 hours. About how fast was the plane traveling in miles per hour (mph)?

It was bright day light the entire flight, even at midnight Ohio time, Why was that?

I left Ohio on Sunday morning April 10 at 12:15pm and arrived in Beijing, China at 2:15 pm Monday, April 11. How could that be when I only spent 13.5 hours on the flight????