Friday, November 13, 2026

Mission #44: the debrief

Pilots
8,191
Average
3,080 m
6,000 m+
2%

Heaviest ballastName a country that drives on the left whose flag has green on it. 61% stayed low or missed.

Most liftName a country in Asia larger than 300,000 km².

Every accepted answer

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

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

Jet Stream (850 m): Solomon Islands, Suriname, Maldives, Seychelles, Grenada, Cyprus

Updraft (600 m): Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Mauritius, Guyana

Drifter (300 m): Bangladesh, Tanzania, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Zambia, Ireland

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

2. Name a country or territory whose name is more than one word.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Marshall Islands, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Sint Maarten

Jet Stream (850 m): Equatorial Guinea, North Macedonia, Trinidad and Tobago, Solomon Islands, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saint Lucia, French Guiana, Faroe Islands, Isle of Man, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Cayman Islands, East Timor

Updraft (600 m): Dominican Republic, United Arab Emirates, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong

Drifter (300 m): New Zealand, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, North Korea, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, Czech Republic

Decoy (150 m): San Marino, Vatican City

Ballast (100 m): United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, South Korea, Saudi Arabia

3. Name a country in Asia larger than 300,000 km².

Edge of Space (1000 m): Turkmenistan, Oman, Mongolia

Jet Stream (850 m): Afghanistan, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Russia

Updraft (600 m): Türkiye, Thailand, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar

Drifter (300 m): Pakistan, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Iran

Ballast (100 m): India, China, Indonesia

4. Name a member of OPEC.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Gabon, Equatorial Guinea

Jet Stream (850 m): Congo, Kuwait

Updraft (600 m): Venezuela, United Arab Emirates, Libya

Drifter (300 m): Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Algeria

Ballast (100 m): Nigeria, Iran

5. Name a country that borders Afghanistan or one of its neighbours (not Afghanistan).

Edge of Space (1000 m): Mongolia, Armenia, Bhutan

Jet Stream (850 m): Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Laos, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan

Updraft (600 m): Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Nepal, North Korea, Kazakhstan

Drifter (300 m): Russia, Vietnam, Iran, Türkiye, Iraq

Ballast (100 m): India, China, Pakistan

6. Name a country with a Black Sea coastline.

Edge of Space (1000 m): Georgia

Updraft (600 m): Romania, Bulgaria

Drifter (300 m): Russia

Ballast (100 m): Türkiye, Ukraine

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

Edge of Space (1000 m): Slovenia

Jet Stream (850 m): Hungary, Slovakia

Updraft (600 m): Czechia

Drifter (300 m): France, Switzerland

Decoy (150 m): Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican City

Ballast (100 m): Germany

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