Monday, October 26, 2026

Mission #26: the debrief

Pilots
59
Average
3,410 m
6,000 m+
2%

Heaviest ballastName a country or territory in Oceania smaller than 100,000 km². 25% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country that borders Ethiopia or South Sudan (not those two).

Every accepted answer

1. Name an island country (no land borders) whose flag has no green.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Antigua and Barbuda, Marshall Islands, Palau

Jet Stream (850 m): Samoa, Saint Lucia, Kiribati, Micronesia, Tonga

Updraft (600 m): Fiji, Cape Verde, Bahamas, Iceland, Barbados

Drifter (300 m): New Zealand, Taiwan, Singapore, Bahrain, Trinidad and Tobago

Decoy (150 m): Malta, Nauru, Tuvalu

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

2. Name a NATO member whose flag has no black.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Latvia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Iceland

Jet Stream (850 m): Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovenia

Updraft (600 m): Greece, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Romania, Czechia

Drifter (300 m): Italy, Spain, Canada, Poland, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg

Ballast (100 m): United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom, France

3. Name a country or territory in Oceania smaller than 100,000 km².

Edge of Space (1000 m): Palau, American Samoa

Jet Stream (850 m): Tonga, Marshall Islands, Guam, New Caledonia, French Polynesia

Updraft (600 m): Kiribati, Micronesia

Drifter (300 m): Vanuatu, Samoa

Decoy (150 m): Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Fiji, Solomon Islands

4. Name a country whose capital starts with A.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Eritrea (Capital: Asmara), Samoa (Capital: Apia)

Jet Stream (850 m): United Arab Emirates (Capital: Abu Dhabi), Turkmenistan (Capital: Ashgabat), Paraguay (Capital: Asunción)

Updraft (600 m): Ghana (Capital: Accra), Madagascar (Capital: Antananarivo), Kazakhstan (Capital: Astana), Jordan (Capital: Amman)

Drifter (300 m): Greece (Capital: Athens), Ethiopia (Capital: Addis Ababa), Algeria (Capital: Algiers)

Decoy (150 m): Andorra (Capital: Andorra la Vella)

Ballast (100 m): Nigeria (Capital: Abuja), Türkiye (Capital: Ankara), Netherlands (Capital: Amsterdam)

5. Name a European country with a coastline on the Atlantic or the North Sea.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Ireland, Iceland

Jet Stream (850 m): Denmark, Norway

Updraft (600 m): Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal

Drifter (300 m): France, Spain

Ballast (100 m): Germany, United Kingdom

6. Name a country that borders Ethiopia or South Sudan (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Djibouti

Jet Stream (850 m): Central African Republic, Eritrea

Updraft (600 m): Uganda, Somalia

Drifter (300 m): Sudan

Ballast (100 m): Kenya, DR Congo

7. Name an African member of the Arab League.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Djibouti, Comoros

Jet Stream (850 m): Libya, Mauritania

Updraft (600 m): Somalia, Tunisia

Drifter (300 m): Sudan, Algeria

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Morocco

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