RE: Heli
I'm not sure if he cried or not but I would have. It too was custom painted and he really was just getting comfortable with it. Even a helicopter (full scale) search of the area and many hours walking around back in those woods has failed to turn up any trace of it. You would think white/yellow/pink would stand out.
The two pictured are on the left a Raptor 50 with rotorgraphics vinyl grapics, an os50 hyper, quick uk head, 9252 servos,a revlock governor, gy401, and duralite batteries. The one on the right is a Hirobo Sceadu EVO 50 with os50 hyper, 9252 servos, csm revlock, quick uk head, custom painted canopy, gy401, VBlades and duralite batteries.
I also currently have a Shuttle Plus that I'm fitting to a scale Jet Ranger body and a Kavan Jet Range kit I'm going to be working on over the summer.