Red 4 down! RIP Flight Lt. Jon Egging

(This is off topic and has nothing to do with EvE online)

So I live in Bournemouth which for the last few years has hosted a free air festival over the beach and cliffs of the Bournemouth and Poole bay.

I love it and tend to try and get down there for atleast 1 day of the 4 that it is on.

One of my favorites to watch are, of course, the Red Arrows RAF display team flying thier BAE Hawk T1A training planes.

Today is the 3rd day of the air festival in Bournemouth. Day 1 was washed out after torrential rain caused flash floods through the streets. town centre and the gardens leading down to the beach itself. Thousands of pounds worth of damage was done with manhole covers and pavements exploding upwards as the water pressure built.

Today we mourn the loss of Flight Lt. Jon Egging.

After wowing the crowds of thousands on Bournemouth beach and cliffs, which included his wife, the Red Arrows turned for Bournemouth International Airport. Before landing the Red Arrow completed one more maneuver over the airport itself.

Crowds always gather to meet the pilots as they land and the Red Arrows always do a last show for them and to thank the Air Traffic control team where they are performing.

However this time tragedy struck for when trying to turn back for a landing, Jon lost power to his Hawk jet and fell to the ground 1 mile short of Bournemouth International Airport onto the banks of the river Stour close to Throop Watermill.

I personally know that area. I live less than 4 miles from where the plane came down and have walked the path next to the river and used the cycle path down there.

I feel quite emotional about this incident as I watched the Red Arrows from my bedroom window less than 7 hours ago. I watched with my baby son and my partner and enjoyed the spectical and minutes later the young man was dead.

I was planning to go watch the closing display tomorrow, now I will still be going but I will be wearing red as a mark of respect to a brave man and one of the best pilots in the world.

I want to extend my prayers and condolences to the family and friends of Jon Egging, the Red Arrow team and the engineers and ground team who worked closely with Jon.

Red 4 may be down but I believe Flight Lt Jon eggings will continue flying in every one of his team mates, friends, family and all those who saw him perform.

He Was Amazing.

Fly Dangerous o/

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Jaguar Vs Harbinger

Hey guys and girls!

So I decided to take a run up to the system of New Eden. This is about 13 jumps from where I am living at the moment and thought I might as well while I am in the area and got nothing going on.

So I jump into my Jaguar 'Rusty Cock' and head on up, looking for fights on the way.

I find a few big stuff floating around, A Hurricane doing a mission, a Raven warping between gates and a couple of carriers on stations but nothing that I could really get my little Assault Frigates' teeth into.

I make it to the system of New Eden without finding any fights so I take a screen shot (below) and float around for a minute to see if the Prophecy on scan is interested in coming to have a look at my Jag. No go and he's in a safe so I decide to head back.

Stopping on the way home I dock and go for a quick Bio-break and a smoke.

Coming back I undock and find a Harbinger outside the station. He lets go a flight of T2 Hammerheads and starts locking me. Interested, I decide to orbit him at 500 and see if he will engage me.

At this moment I am thinking through the pro's and cons of having a fight here.

So it was about 50-50% on whether to go for it when in local he asks me to 1v1 no outside interference. That negates the alliance mates and friends IF he is faithful to his word.

He engages his point but doesn't activate a web so I start feeling pretty confident. I target his drones while keeping a tight orbit to the Harbinger with my TD working overtime to keep him from getting any lucky hits. Drones 1-5 go down in just under 3 minutes and only having 50m3 of space in the drone bay I know that he is out of drones.

So now I start in on the Harby and chew through his shield while my tank is stayting steady at 40% shield. Then i hit armor and damage basically stops. He is armor tanked with a repper. He is easily tanking my damage while I speed tank/TD to negate his incoming damage.

Stalemate.

The fight itself lasted about 9 minutes. 3 minutes on the drones, 2 minutes to get his shield down and 4 minute hammering my head against his armor tank.

After this we both sort of just said 'GF', I gave him some pointer on being fit for anti-frig and he told me that normally he flies in a fleet and this would be his first 1v1 with a real PVP'er.

So Assault Frig Vs Battlecruiser? Apart from not having enough DPS to break a tank it really does depend on how the BC is fit.

If he had had a web and 2 flights of light drones he probably would of one easily. Because he had medium drones (shit tracking) and no web I managed to keep a high speed orbit and tank both him and his drones.

I would also use this same Jaguar against a Brutix. Blasters have really bad tracking and I would happily fight one if I could garuntee it didn't have a web (IE Shield Brutix)

Anyway that was fun. I like taking on bigger prey in smaller ships when possible.

Fla5hy Red EU Timezone is still open and we so far have added one member to our ranks. If your interested in low-sec PVP in small gangs then make sure to head to our forums and make your application TODAY!

Fly Dangerous o/

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Fla5hy Red Needs EU players!

Evening all.

So this is the first blog in a while and I just want to say, that if your reading this, thanks for coming back after such a long absence!!

Right so onto business. Fla5hy Red has expanded greatly in the last few weeks but only in the US timezone. Big up to our US directors for being on the ball with that.

Now it's my turn and while I've got nothing against the yanks, it would be nice to get some more action in the EU time zone... IE my bloody time zone!

So if you/are:

- Thinking of trying low sec PVP/Piracy
- Over 10 mil SP (Exceptions could be made, please still apply if under this and fit rest of the criteria)
- Enjoy logging on, fleeting up and roaming around to find kills.
- Experienced in small gang PVP or willing to learn
- Able to use Teamspeak and have a working mic.
- Want to learn 'nano faggotry' ship tactics
- A good laugh in fleet, on comms and in local.

We have a great atmosphere, some good friends and are looking to become THE premier low-sec PVP piracy corp in New Eden.

To become part of this apply on our forums here

Ok thats business taken care of.

Now then I want to quickly mention a pilot by the name of Logan Ortese. This guy is/was a reader of this blog and obviously enjoyed it...

[16:49:22] Logan Ortese; Nice Blog Mail Lite.
[16:49:28] Mail Lite; thanks mate =)
[16:49:34] Mail Lite; Will be restarting it soon.
[16:49:36] Mail Lite; stay tuned
[16:49:44] Logan Ortese; loved the funny pictures
[16:50:19] Logan Ortese; Fly Safe c ya around

Excellent, I love a bit of fan mail and will always acknowledge in local if possible and I'm not AFK however this is the first time I managed to pop my fan 15 minutes later!

First off though, I was in my Jaguar (Rusty Cock) just roaming around solo looking for my first kill of the new 'season'. I landed on a gate to find a Myrmidon had also just landed. The pilot is a well known moron of the area so I just sat there and let him engage. As he did I jumped through and reaproached while seeing if anyone was awake in TS.

Paydirt. Ollie and Fo' were both alive (out of the 7 on TS...) and on thier way. Fo' had a session timer so would be lagging but Ollie was enroute in his new toy... the Loki.

So the Myrm jumped through and I let hiom get me to half shields before jumping back and reaproaching yet again. I waited and he jumped back and again engaged and I again jump back only this time Ollie was also thier waiting and Fo' and his hurricane were on the way too.

I asked the question to Ollie 'Thats a double web Loki right?' and got a bad response. 'No mate, just the one'

Shit. I hoped Fo' would get there but I wouldn't bet on him having a web on the Hurricane. Myrm jumps back through and lo and behold burns straight to gate, jumps and warps on the other side.


That was a fail. If we had the double web Loki it would of been one dead Myrm. *Sad Face*


So we start heading back Fo' ahead me in the middle and Ollie behind when I notice my fan from earlier, Logan Ortese, jump with me into the next system in a Wreathe. I start aproaching and the Wreathe cloaks. I carry on the approach manually and get the hero uncloak!

Scrammed and overloaded guns, plus a little help from Ollie and thats the first kill of my season and I am off the starter blocks.

Watch out New Eden. Mail Lite is back and is ready for blood.

Fly Dangerous o/

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Fun roams with new friends.

I say 'new friends' but I know that some of the Defenders of Pen Island have been friendly and flying with Shadow Cartel for some time. However it has only just become something that I have started to do and I have to admit I enjoy it.

So last night I log on and Helicity Bosun says 'Mail shield roam with shadow in 45 mins, u coming?'

I look at my ships and start thinking of what I would take to such a roam. My eye light up when I see the two Loki hulls I have fitted up recently and tell Heli I will be there.

I do a quick refit, changing the MWD for an AB and the point for a Invul. I knew that it would be unlikely that we would set off without dedictaed tackle so I felt good sacrificing the point for a bit of extra tank. But i wimp out in taking the faction web Loki i own and instead used my T2 fit one. I know... Wimp right?

I give my ship to our carrier pilot to jump it over to Shadow's home system and start making my way over in a Taranis. 18 jumps I might even find something to kill on the way.

I start off and find nothing till i realise I am chasing a FW Slicer gate after gate. So when I finally catch up with him I ask him for a 1v1 and start orbiting him nice and close on the gate waiting for him to engage.

He refuses but then a pilot from another faction comes through in a Wolf and they start the fight. I'm a bit slow to whore on the Slicer KM and the Wolf pilot doesn't want to fight me =(

So i make it to Shadow's home system Goinard. Easily one of the best EvE System names... Go In 'Ard... get it? Eh...

Anyway we get a Bs heavy fleet together with some lighter stuff and reps and we head out and scout out a small gatecamp in Mannar and send some tackle and bait through. They engage and we jump the rest of the fleet in. Our main target, an Absolution command ship, manages to warp away but we take out a Ferox and Hurricane.

We then continue on and find a very heavy BC gang in on of the systems up the same pipe. they obviously have eyes on our bigger BS heavy fleet and scatter before we can tackle anything.

A Carrier is undocked from one of the stations in the next system so we send Jawmare and a couple of other Tempests to try and bump the guy off station. Jawmare is engaged by the carrier and somehow gets popped by it! Much *Facepalm* ensues and then *facedesks* when the KM is linked... Um Jaw I think you forgot your rigs, just saying!


A Manticore decides to try and lol kill some of our gang while we are waiting on the gate for FC to scout some people out and gets popped for it's trouble. Not sure what that pilot was thinking but what ever.

We then play some station games with a couple of Machariels but we got real bored real fast so started scouting a B A N E fleet in Amamake. Wowbagger sends in some cloaky tackle but somehow they all get uncloaked and the main bulk of the other fleet warps off. However this Hurricane is a bit slow and gets taken out.

Wish we could of got more of the B A N E fleet as we have some history with those guys and it's always nice to blob the blobbers lol.

So we start out again and find a Geddon and Apoc Navy sitting on a station. We send through some bait and the Geddon agresses so we put the rest of the fleet in and pop him. We then start on the unagressed Apoc Navy but he docks. To bad.

Same system we find a Abaddon on the other station and go in to make him dock.

He just sits there with combined DPS of our fleet hitting him. He goes into low armor and we're all loling at his repair bill, waiting for him to dock.

Nope he no dock. He pops just sitting on station and we get his pod too. WTF? AFK Abaddon? WTF FACTION FIT AFK ABADDON?! A 1.7 BILLION ISK AFK FACTION FIT ABADDON!


Much lols were had at this point.

We warp to the out gate and a Wolf comes in so we pop that and get this in local from the Wolf pilot.

[ 2011.05.08 21:53:13 ] Ishuk0ne > noobs.

We wait for our scouts to report. Drake and Gila on the next gate. We agress the Drake and put a tackler on the other side to make sure we don't lose them. They both jump through and the Gila is pointed and popped but the Drake gets away.

We start to head down to Tama to get a good fight and find a FW fleet on a high sec gate. We jump into it and they all start jumping out. We manage to grab a Hurricane before he gets out but everyone else jumps back to high sec.

I have to leave at this point so thank the FC and reppers for a good night and go to bed. Looking at the KB this morning it looks like I didn't miss much, they mangaed to catch 2 more of the FW Hurricanes in Tama but thats about all.

All in all a nice little fleet action. Too bad we didn't find any other fleets to engage but we all had a bit of fun and managed to pop some good stuff.

The last word goes to Trenny Jr, who for some reason decided to put a AB on his Tempest instead of a MWD and admitted to this when he was trying to bump the Carrier

[20:16:54] trenny jr > I IS GUD AT THIS GAME

No Trenny... your really not! Lol

Fly dangerous o/

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Armor roam through low sec with famous people!

Having a great roam tonight but not on Mail.

Hannibal has come into his own tonight flying a Curse. Never flown one in a gang and especially not an armor gang!

Armor gang, this is a change from normal as Defenders of Pen Island are notorious shield nano fags these days.

First kill in the roam was the best. This lovely Macharial. He had 3 carriers and a friend in another Macharial to help him but he still went splat with no losses on our side. Nom Nom!

I also want to mention Rixx Javixx who I had the pleasure to fleet with. And of course Helicity was also here!

Big love to the reppers as well. Those guardians are epic!

Back to the roam!

Fly dangerous o/

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Looking for investment opportunities!

Hi all,

Being a pirate is great. I won't ever leave the proffession and at least 1 toon will always be neg sec status for as long as I play.

However being a pirate is not great for the ISK situation.

I have tried PI and market trading and find both of them... meh... boring!

So I am looking for an entrepreneur who I can back with a certain amount of ISK who will then go on and make ISK for both of us.

If this is you, you could already have a business in EvE and be looking to expand or thinking of starting one up, please put together a business plan and send me an ingame EvE message.

If I do not feel I can back the proposal myself I may be able to get some friends to also come in on it. Sort of like an EvE Dragons Den.

Hope to hear from some people soon.

Fly Dangerous o/

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A damn good fight!

Hey guys!

Had a great fight last night so thought I would share it with you.

As part of The Defenders Of Pen Island I, and my alliance mates, get alot of stick for blobbing and yeah we do do things like this and this.

It's part of the game and as we play our roles as Pirates, we prey on weak and helpless. Thats sort of part of the Pirate image.

However we also don't run from proper fights if they come up and this was proven yesterday in Sisiede.

So me and Otto are running around in Sisiede in our cloaky probing ships and we both get a hit on this Drake and warp to him at range. I land 50km from him and realise he is sitting about 220km from the Amamake gate. We call on comms and get together a small gank fleet.

Mail in his new Cynabal, Otto in his Drake and a couple of others warp to my cloaky alt who has slowboated into popint range and we start the engagement.

At this moment we are thinking this is probably bait but we could try and gank it and get out.

The Drake is deep in shield when a friend of his in a Hurricane lands, primary is called on the 'Cane and damage is switched over. Then another one of his friends in a Cyclone lands. We make sure we spread our points but just as the enemy 'Cane is going down he manages to warp out.

One of our 'Canes goes down and we find out later that Ollie Khan, one of my best mates in RL, is a total FAIL and had fit a Medium Shield Extender II to his 'Cane instead of a large one. Moron...

Anyway back to the fight and primary is switched back to the Drake and he is finished off. Once he is down we switch to the Cyclone just as the rest of his gang lands. The first Hurricane comes back with another 2 'Canes in tow plus a Brutix, Dominix, Tempest and Blackbird.

The primary is switched again to the 2nd of the 2 'Canes and he dies in a ball of fire and the next primary, Tempest, is called. Our fleet are spreading points and keeping range as the Domi is heavy neut fitted.

Piscis is throwing missiles 90km out to the Blackbird who has to scarper before he gets melted. Damage is still on the Tempest and it eventually goes boom with the next primary being another of the Hurricanes.

Our fleet all being shield and nano fit are easily keeping range on the armor fleet and able to put alot more damage on them than they are able to put on us. Piscis is still on anti Blackbird duty and everytime he comes on grid sends missiles flying his way.

2nd Hurricane is down and the primary is now the 3rd Hurricane which also goes down under combined fire of our fleet.

We finally get back to destroying the Cyclone we started earlier and now thier fleet is tring to pull range and warp out from us. Not going to happen when it is armor versus shield but they do try.

Cyclone goes down so we pour the damage onto the Brutix. With our fleet being at least 20km all through the fight he has been completely useless in this engagement which is why we left such a high DPS ship till last. Just in case you were wondering.

The last ship on the field for the other side is thier Dominix. He is now alone facing a full fleet of high DPS ships.

Bye bye Dominix, your neuts will not save you now mwuhahahah!

GF was offered in local by our fleet but only one pilot from thier fleet Gf'd back and that was the Blackbird pilot... probably because he didn't die!

Fly Dangerous o/

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