Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Mission #27: the debrief

Pilots
107
Average
2,540 m
6,000 m+
0%

Heaviest ballastName a country in Europe with three or four land neighbours. 69% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country that shares a land border with China.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a NATO member whose flag has no green.

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Slovakia, Croatia, Albania, Slovenia, Latvia

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

Drifter (300 m): France, Spain, Canada, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg

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

2. Name a country that shares a land border with China.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Afghanistan

Updraft (600 m): Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Drifter (300 m): North Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nepal, Kazakhstan

Ballast (100 m): India, Russia, Mongolia

3. Name an EU member whose flag has no yellow.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus

Jet Stream (850 m): Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia

Updraft (600 m): Finland, Ireland, Czechia, Hungary, Bulgaria

Drifter (300 m): Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Denmark

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg, Malta

Ballast (100 m): France, Italy, Poland

4. Name a country whose capital starts with K.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kuwait (Capital: Kuwait City), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Capital: Kingstown)

Jet Stream (850 m): Nepal (Capital: Kathmandu), Rwanda (Capital: Kigali)

Updraft (600 m): Uganda (Capital: Kampala), Afghanistan (Capital: Kabul), Malaysia (Capital: Kuala Lumpur)

Drifter (300 m): DR Congo (Capital: Kinshasa), Sudan (Capital: Khartoum)

Ballast (100 m): Ukraine (Capital: Kyiv), Jamaica (Capital: Kingston)

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

Edge of Space (1000 m): Latvia, Kosovo

Jet Stream (850 m): Albania, Slovenia

Updraft (600 m): Czechia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania

Drifter (300 m): Greece, Finland, Norway

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg

Ballast (100 m): Spain, Belgium

6. Name a country in Western Africa with more than 10 million people.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Benin

Jet Stream (850 m): Senegal, Guinea

Updraft (600 m): Mali, Burkina Faso

Drifter (300 m): Ivory Coast, Niger

Ballast (100 m): Nigeria, Ghana

7. Name a country that borders Jordan or Saudi Arabia (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Qatar

Jet Stream (850 m): Oman, Kuwait

Updraft (600 m): United Arab Emirates, Palestine

Drifter (300 m): Yemen, Syria

Ballast (100 m): Iraq, Israel

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