Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Mission #35: the debrief

Pilots
8,393
Average
3,110 m
6,000 m+
1%

Heaviest ballastName a country that drives on the left whose flag has blue on it. 80% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country that borders Finland or Russia (not those two).

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country that drives on the left whose flag has blue on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Seychelles, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda

Jet Stream (850 m): Bahamas, Barbados, Samoa, Saint Lucia, Kiribati

Updraft (600 m): Botswana, Lesotho, Mauritius, Eswatini, Fiji, Solomon Islands

Drifter (300 m): Tanzania, Malaysia, Nepal, Namibia

Decoy (150 m): Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): India, Thailand, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand

2. Name a country in Africa larger than 500,000 km².

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Chad, Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Central African Republic

Updraft (600 m): Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, Niger, Mali, Zambia

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

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

3. Name a country whose capital's name contains the country's own name.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Djibouti (Capital: Djibouti)

Jet Stream (850 m): Andorra (Capital: Andorra la Vella)

Updraft (600 m): Guatemala (Capital: Guatemala City), Kuwait (Capital: Kuwait City), San Marino (Capital: City of San Marino)

Drifter (300 m): Panama (Capital: Panama City), Singapore (Capital: Singapore), Vatican City (Capital: Vatican City), Monaco (Capital: Monaco), Luxembourg (Capital: Luxembourg)

Ballast (100 m): Mexico (Capital: Mexico City)

4. Name a country that is a G20 member in its own right.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Canada, Saudi Arabia, Australia

Jet Stream (850 m): South Africa, Italy, South Korea, Argentina

Updraft (600 m): Türkiye, Germany, United Kingdom, France

Drifter (300 m): Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Japan

Ballast (100 m): India, China, United States

5. Name a country or territory in Eastern Africa.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Comoros, Seychelles

Jet Stream (850 m): Burundi, Eritrea, Mauritius, Djibouti, Réunion

Updraft (600 m): Zambia, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda

Drifter (300 m): Uganda, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi

Ballast (100 m): Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania

6. Name a country that borders Finland or Russia (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Latvia, Estonia

Jet Stream (850 m): Georgia, Mongolia, Lithuania

Updraft (600 m): Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus

Drifter (300 m): Poland, Sweden, Norway, North Korea

Ballast (100 m): China, Ukraine

7. Name a country that borders Austria.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Slovenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Hungary, Slovakia

Updraft (600 m): Czechia

Drifter (300 m): Italy, Switzerland

Decoy (150 m): Liechtenstein

Ballast (100 m): Germany

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