Thursday, October 22, 2026

Mission #22: the debrief

Pilots
56
Average
3,170 m
6,000 m+
4%

Heaviest ballastName an African Commonwealth member whose flag has red on it. 57% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country or territory in South America with a coastline.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country where Arabic is an official language.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bahrain, Djibouti, Comoros

Jet Stream (850 m): Palestine, Oman, Mauritania, Kuwait, Eritrea, Qatar

Updraft (600 m): Somalia, Tunisia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Lebanon

Drifter (300 m): Israel, Sudan, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, Chad

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Saudi Arabia

2. Name an island country (no land borders) whose flag has no orange.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Palau

Jet Stream (850 m): Samoa, Saint Lucia, Kiribati, Seychelles, Grenada, Micronesia, Tonga, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Updraft (600 m): Solomon Islands, Maldives, Cape Verde, Bahamas, Iceland, Vanuatu, Barbados, São Tomé and Príncipe

Drifter (300 m): Jamaica, Madagascar, Taiwan, Singapore, Bahrain, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Fiji, Comoros

Decoy (150 m): Malta, Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Japan, Philippines, Australia, Cuba, New Zealand

3. Name a country in Africa larger than 1 million km².

Edge of Space (1000 m): Libya, Mauritania

Jet Stream (850 m): Mali, Chad

Updraft (600 m): Algeria, Angola, Niger

Drifter (300 m): Ethiopia, DR Congo, Sudan

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, South Africa

4. Name an African Commonwealth member whose flag has red on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Eswatini, Seychelles

Jet Stream (850 m): Namibia, Gambia, Mauritius

Updraft (600 m): Malawi, Zambia, Togo

Drifter (300 m): Uganda, Ghana, Mozambique, Cameroon

Ballast (100 m): South Africa, Kenya

5. Name a country in Africa with three or four land neighbours.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Gabon, Botswana, Djibouti

Jet Stream (850 m): Mauritania, Eritrea, Namibia

Updraft (600 m): Benin, Rwanda, Burundi, Togo, Liberia

Drifter (300 m): Ghana, Malawi, Somalia, Zimbabwe

Ballast (100 m): Nigeria, Egypt, Angola

6. Name a country that borders Syria or Türkiye (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Georgia, Armenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Bulgaria, Lebanon

Updraft (600 m): Jordan, Azerbaijan

Drifter (300 m): Greece, Israel

Ballast (100 m): Iran, Iraq

7. Name a country or territory in South America with a coastline.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Guyana, Suriname

Jet Stream (850 m): Ecuador, Uruguay, French Guiana

Updraft (600 m): Chile, Venezuela

Drifter (300 m): Argentina, Peru

Ballast (100 m): Brazil, Colombia

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