Monday, November 9, 2026

Mission #40: the debrief

Pilots
8,046
Average
2,890 m
6,000 m+
1%

Heaviest ballastName a country the Tigris or the Euphrates flows through. 82% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName an island country or territory in the Americas (no land borders).

Every accepted answer

1. Name an island country (no land borders) whose flag has white on it.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Marshall Islands

Jet Stream (850 m): Iceland, Samoa, Kiribati, Seychelles, Micronesia, Tonga

Updraft (600 m): Trinidad and Tobago, Cyprus, Fiji, Comoros, Maldives, Cape Verde

Drifter (300 m): Cuba, New Zealand, Madagascar, Taiwan, Singapore, Bahrain

Decoy (150 m): Malta, Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Japan, Philippines, Australia

2. Name a sea or ocean that touches Russia.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Pechora Sea

Jet Stream (850 m): Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, White Sea, Chukchi Sea

Updraft (600 m): Sea of Okhotsk, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Sea of Azov

Drifter (300 m): Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Japan, Bering Sea

Ballast (100 m): Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Black Sea

3. Name a country or territory in Asia that has a coastline but fewer than 10 million people.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Maldives, Brunei

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

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

Drifter (300 m): Lebanon, Palestine, Oman

Ballast (100 m): Israel, Singapore

4. Name an island country or territory in the Americas (no land borders).

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): Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Aruba, Bermuda, Cayman Islands

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

Drifter (300 m): Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas

Ballast (100 m): Cuba, Jamaica

5. Name an island country or territory in Oceania (no land borders).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Marshall Islands, Palau, American Samoa

Jet Stream (850 m): Micronesia, Tonga, Guam, New Caledonia, French Polynesia

Updraft (600 m): Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati

Drifter (300 m): Fiji, Solomon Islands

Decoy (150 m): Nauru, Tuvalu

Ballast (100 m): Australia, New Zealand

6. Name a country the Tigris or the Euphrates flows through.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Türkiye

Drifter (300 m): Syria

Ballast (100 m): Iraq

7. Name a country that borders Austria or Switzerland (not those two).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Slovenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Hungary, Slovakia

Updraft (600 m): Czechia

Drifter (300 m): France, Italy

Decoy (150 m): Liechtenstein

Ballast (100 m): Germany

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