Thursday, November 12, 2026

Mission #43: the debrief

Pilots
8,533
Average
3,190 m
6,000 m+
2%

Heaviest ballastName a country with a double letter in its name (like Greece). 65% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country or territory with a land border with Spain.

Every accepted answer

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

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Eswatini, Guyana, Brunei, Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Lucia

Updraft (600 m): Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Lesotho, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago

Drifter (300 m): Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Ballast (100 m): South Africa, Kenya, Jamaica

2. Name a country with a double letter in its name (like Greece).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Guinea-Bissau, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Jet Stream (850 m): Marshall Islands, Sierra Leone

Updraft (600 m): Andorra, Seychelles

Drifter (300 m): Russia, Cameroon

Decoy (150 m): Morocco

Ballast (100 m): Greece, Philippines

3. Name a country or territory in the Americas with fewer than 5 million people.

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

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

Drifter (300 m): Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname

Ballast (100 m): Jamaica, Panama, Uruguay

4. Name a Commonwealth member in Africa.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mauritius, Eswatini, Seychelles

Jet Stream (850 m): Namibia, Gambia, Gabon, Botswana, Lesotho

Updraft (600 m): Malawi, Zambia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo

Drifter (300 m): Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Mozambique, Cameroon

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

5. Name a country in the Nile river basin.

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Rwanda, Burundi

Updraft (600 m): Tanzania, Sudan, Uganda

Drifter (300 m): Ethiopia, DR Congo

Ballast (100 m): Egypt, Kenya

6. Name a country or territory with a land border with Spain.

Edge of Space (1000 m): United Kingdom

Jet Stream (850 m): Morocco, Gibraltar

Updraft (600 m): Andorra

Ballast (100 m): France, Portugal

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

Edge of Space (1000 m): Croatia, Slovenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Serbia, Slovakia

Updraft (600 m): Romania, Czechia

Drifter (300 m): Ukraine, Switzerland

Decoy (150 m): Liechtenstein

Ballast (100 m): Germany, Italy

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