Saturday, November 7, 2026

Mission #38: the debrief

Pilots
5,488
Average
2,810 m
6,000 m+
1%

Heaviest ballastName a country in the Americas where people drive on the left. 68% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country in Asia with the letter I in its name.

Every accepted answer

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

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Singapore, Palestine, Kuwait, Georgia, Mongolia, Armenia

Updraft (600 m): Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Syria, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates, Tajikistan

Drifter (300 m): Vietnam, Iran, Türkiye, Thailand, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Afghanistan

Ballast (100 m): India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines

2. Name a country that drives on the left whose flag has red on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Grenada, Tonga, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Maldives, Brunei, Samoa, Kiribati, Seychelles

Updraft (600 m): Zambia, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Namibia, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Eswatini

Drifter (300 m): New Zealand, Bangladesh, Uganda, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malawi

Decoy (150 m): Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, South Africa, Kenya, Australia

3. Name a country or territory in Africa smaller than 100,000 km².

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Djibouti, Comoros, Cape Verde, Réunion

Updraft (600 m): Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Eswatini

Drifter (300 m): Togo, Gambia, Lesotho

Ballast (100 m): Rwanda, Burundi, Sierra Leone

4. Name a country in the Americas where people drive on the left.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda

Updraft (600 m): Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada

Drifter (300 m): Guyana, Suriname, Bahamas

Ballast (100 m): Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

5. Name a country or territory that borders China.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Afghanistan

Jet Stream (850 m): Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan, Macau

Updraft (600 m): Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Laos, Hong Kong

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

Ballast (100 m): India, Russia, Mongolia

6. Name a member of the Nordic Council (countries and self-governing territories).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Åland Islands

Jet Stream (850 m): Faroe Islands

Updraft (600 m): Greenland

Drifter (300 m): Finland, Iceland

Ballast (100 m): Sweden, Norway, Denmark

7. Name a country that borders Kenya or Tanzania (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Burundi, South Sudan

Jet Stream (850 m): Somalia, Rwanda

Updraft (600 m): Malawi, Zambia

Drifter (300 m): Uganda, Mozambique

Ballast (100 m): Ethiopia, DR Congo

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