Thursday, November 5, 2026

Mission #36: the debrief

Pilots
8,354
Average
2,800 m
6,000 m+
1%

Heaviest ballastName a country whose capital is not its largest city. 64% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country in South-Eastern Asia with a coastline.

Every accepted answer

1. Name a country with more than 50 million people whose flag has red on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): DR Congo, Myanmar, Sudan, Uganda

Jet Stream (850 m): Italy, Kenya, Colombia, South Korea, Bangladesh, Ethiopia

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

Drifter (300 m): Mexico, Japan, Philippines, Egypt, Vietnam, Iran

Ballast (100 m): China, United States, Indonesia, Russia

2. Name a country whose capital is not its largest city.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Liechtenstein (Capital: Vaduz)

Jet Stream (850 m): Belize (Capital: Belmopan), Malta (Capital: Valletta), Myanmar (Capital: Naypyidaw), Cameroon (Capital: Yaoundé)

Updraft (600 m): Morocco (Capital: Rabat), Vietnam (Capital: Hanoi), Tanzania (Capital: Dodoma), Ivory Coast (Capital: Yamoussoukro), Kazakhstan (Capital: Astana), South Africa (Capitals: Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town), Bolivia (Capitals: Sucre, La Paz), Ecuador (Capital: Quito)

Drifter (300 m): Turkey, India (Capital: New Delhi), Nigeria (Capital: Abuja), New Zealand (Capital: Wellington), Pakistan (Capital: Islamabad), China (Capital: Beijing)

Decoy (150 m): Switzerland (Capital: Bern)

Ballast (100 m): Australia (Capital: Canberra), United States (Capital: Washington D.C.), Canada (Capital: Ottawa), Brazil (Capital: Brasília)

3. Name a country the Equator passes through (on land).

Edge of Space (1000 m): São Tomé and Príncipe

Jet Stream (850 m): Congo, Gabon, Somalia

Updraft (600 m): Uganda, DR Congo

Drifter (300 m): Colombia, Kenya, Indonesia

Ballast (100 m): Ecuador, Brazil

4. Name a country or territory in Asia smaller than 30,000 km² (about Belgium).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Maldives, Brunei

Jet Stream (850 m): Bahrain, Timor-Leste, Macau

Updraft (600 m): Kuwait, Armenia, Qatar, Hong Kong

Drifter (300 m): Lebanon, Palestine

Ballast (100 m): Israel, Singapore

5. Name a country that was once a Soviet republic.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Latvia, Estonia

Jet Stream (850 m): Armenia, Lithuania, Moldova

Updraft (600 m): Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia

Drifter (300 m): Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan

Ballast (100 m): Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

6. Name a country that borders Tanzania or Uganda (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): South Sudan

Jet Stream (850 m): Rwanda, Burundi

Updraft (600 m): Malawi, Zambia

Drifter (300 m): Mozambique

Ballast (100 m): Kenya, DR Congo

7. Name a country in South-Eastern Asia with a coastline.

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Cambodia, Singapore

Updraft (600 m): Myanmar, Malaysia

Drifter (300 m): Vietnam, Thailand

Ballast (100 m): Indonesia, Philippines

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