Sunday, November 1, 2026

Mission #32: the debrief

Pilots
5,017
Average
2,220 m
6,000 m+
0%

Heaviest ballastName a country the Tropic of Cancer passes through (on land). 87% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country that borders Angola or DR Congo (not those two).

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country in Africa larger than 300,000 km².

Edge of Space (1000 m): Central African Republic, Mauritania, Namibia, Botswana

Jet Stream (850 m): Chad, Somalia, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Libya, Congo

Updraft (600 m): Mozambique, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Niger, Mali, Zambia

Drifter (300 m): Ethiopia, DR Congo, Tanzania, Sudan, Algeria, Angola

Ballast (100 m): Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Morocco

2. Name a country with five or more land neighbours whose flag has blue on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Slovakia, Central African Republic, Croatia

Jet Stream (850 m): Romania, South Sudan, Azerbaijan, Laos, Serbia

Updraft (600 m): DR Congo, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Chad

Drifter (300 m): Colombia, Argentina, Ukraine, Israel, Ethiopia

Ballast (100 m): India, Brazil, Russia, France, South Africa

3. Name a country the Tropic of Cancer passes through (on land).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mauritania

Jet Stream (850 m): Myanmar, Taiwan, Bahamas, Mali, Niger

Updraft (600 m): Libya, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bangladesh

Drifter (300 m): Saudi Arabia, Algeria

Ballast (100 m): Mexico, Egypt, India, China

4. Name a country whose capital starts with T.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Estonia (Capital: Tallinn), Bhutan (Capital: Thimphu)

Jet Stream (850 m): Georgia (Capital: Tbilisi), Albania (Capital: Tirana)

Updraft (600 m): Tunisia (Capital: Tunis), Honduras (Capital: Tegucigalpa), Libya (Capital: Tripoli)

Drifter (300 m): Netherlands (Capital: The Hague), Uzbekistan (Capital: Tashkent), Taiwan (Capital: Taipei)

Ballast (100 m): Japan (Capital: Tokyo), Iran (Capital: Tehran)

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

Edge of Space (1000 m): Georgia, Armenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, Oman

Updraft (600 m): Cambodia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

Drifter (300 m): Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, North Korea

Ballast (100 m): Indonesia, Pakistan

6. Name a country that borders Angola or DR Congo (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Namibia

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

Updraft (600 m): Burundi, South Sudan

Drifter (300 m): Zambia, Rwanda

Ballast (100 m): Tanzania, Uganda

7. Name a country in Western Europe.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Switzerland

Jet Stream (850 m): Belgium

Updraft (600 m): Netherlands

Drifter (300 m): France

Decoy (150 m): Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco

Ballast (100 m): Germany

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