I have read about his collection on a couple websites, and there are a few people who are not happy about the way he disassembled the items, and transported the planes in his collection, or the state they may be in today. Although his methods may not have been necessarily the best, but my feeling is at least the birds are preserved and around. Who knows what would have happened to the planes in his collection had he not purchased them, most would have been turned ino scrap years ago.