Friday, October 23, 2026

Mission #23: the debrief

Pilots
42
Average
3,260 m
6,000 m+
5%

Heaviest ballastName a country whose capital starts with C. 48% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName an African country with an Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a national capital that starts with B.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bandar Seri Begawan

Jet Stream (850 m): Bangui, Banjul, Bissau, Basseterre, Belmopan, Bridgetown, Brazzaville

Updraft (600 m): Bratislava, Baku, Beirut, Baghdad, Bamako, Bishkek

Drifter (300 m): Bangkok, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Bern, Belgrade, Bucharest, Brasilia

Ballast (100 m): Berlin, Beijing, Brussels

2. Name an African country with an Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe

Jet Stream (850 m): Mauritania, Namibia, Gambia, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau

Updraft (600 m): Guinea, Benin, Sierra Leone, Togo, Congo, Liberia

Drifter (300 m): Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Senegal

Ballast (100 m): Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, DR Congo

3. Name a country in the Americas with more than 10 million people.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Dominican Republic, Honduras

Jet Stream (850 m): Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Haiti

Updraft (600 m): Peru, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela

Drifter (300 m): Colombia, Argentina, Canada

Ballast (100 m): United States, Brazil, Mexico

4. Name a country in Asia whose flag has yellow on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Bhutan, Brunei

Jet Stream (850 m): Armenia, Timor-Leste

Updraft (600 m): Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia

Drifter (300 m): Myanmar, Malaysia, Sri Lanka

Ballast (100 m): China, Philippines, Vietnam

5. Name a country in the Americas whose flag has no yellow.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Belize

Jet Stream (850 m): Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama

Updraft (600 m): Haiti, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Paraguay

Drifter (300 m): Canada, Peru, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala

Ballast (100 m): United States, Mexico, Argentina

6. Name a country that borders Spain or France (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Switzerland

Jet Stream (850 m): Portugal

Updraft (600 m): Morocco, Belgium

Drifter (300 m): Italy

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg, Andorra, Monaco

Ballast (100 m): Germany

7. Name a country whose capital starts with C.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Moldova (Capital: Chișinău), Saint Lucia (Capital: Castries)

Jet Stream (850 m): Guinea (Capital: Conakry), Benin (Capital: Cotonou)

Updraft (600 m): Venezuela (Capital: Caracas), Sri Lanka (Capital: Colombo)

Drifter (300 m): Australia (Capital: Canberra), Denmark (Capital: Copenhagen)

Decoy (150 m): San Marino (Capital: City of San Marino)

Ballast (100 m): Egypt (Capital: Cairo), South Africa (Capital: Cape Town)

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