Saturday, October 31, 2026

Mission #31: the debrief

Pilots
5,417
Average
3,150 m
6,000 m+
1%

Heaviest ballastName a country whose capital starts with S. 62% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country or territory in Caribbean.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country in Asia with the letter E in its name.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Timor-Leste, Maldives, Brunei

Jet Stream (850 m): Singapore, Lebanon, Palestine, Georgia, Armenia

Updraft (600 m): Nepal, North Korea, United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan

Drifter (300 m): South Korea, Israel, Bangladesh, Yemen, Uzbekistan

Ballast (100 m): Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Türkiye

2. Name a country in Europe whose flag has red on it.

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

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

Updraft (600 m): Denmark, Norway, Romania, Czechia, Hungary, Belarus, Serbia

Drifter (300 m): Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg, Malta, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco

Ballast (100 m): Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy

3. Name a country with exactly one land neighbour.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Timor-Leste

Jet Stream (850 m): Lesotho, Gambia, Brunei, Qatar, Papua New Guinea

Updraft (600 m): Haiti, Dominican Republic, Denmark, Monaco

Drifter (300 m): Ireland, United Kingdom, South Korea

Decoy (150 m): Vatican City, San Marino

Ballast (100 m): Portugal, Canada

4. Name a country whose capital starts with S.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Kiribati (Capital: South Tarawa), Grenada (Capital: St. George's), Antigua and Barbuda (Capital: Saint John's)

Jet Stream (850 m): North Macedonia (Capital: Skopje), Fiji (Capital: Suva), São Tomé and Príncipe (Capital: São Tomé)

Updraft (600 m): Bulgaria (Capital: Sofia), El Salvador (Capital: San Salvador), Singapore (Capital: Singapore), Costa Rica (Capital: San José), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Capital: Sarajevo)

Drifter (300 m): Yemen (Capital: Sana'a), Sri Lanka (Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte), Bolivia (Capital: Sucre), Dominican Republic (Capital: Santo Domingo)

Ballast (100 m): South Korea (Capital: Seoul), Chile (Capital: Santiago), Sweden (Capital: Stockholm)

5. Name a country or territory in Caribbean.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Curaçao, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, Sint Maarten

Jet Stream (850 m): Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Aruba, Cayman Islands

Updraft (600 m): Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Puerto Rico

Drifter (300 m): Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago

Ballast (100 m): Cuba, Jamaica

6. Name a country with a Baltic Sea coastline.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Estonia

Jet Stream (850 m): Lithuania, Latvia

Updraft (600 m): Denmark, Finland

Drifter (300 m): Poland, Sweden

Ballast (100 m): Russia, Germany

7. Name a country that borders Afghanistan or Iran (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Armenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan

Updraft (600 m): Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

Drifter (300 m): Türkiye, Iraq

Ballast (100 m): China, Pakistan

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