This is the only semi-legitimate reason I can get behind. For kids in grade-school.

If anybody outside of grade-school brings this up, I would laugh and ignore.

Probably helped lower some risk, too.

Wasn’t there some controversy with who had the first flying machine? There was supposedly some guy in CT that flew an aircraft before the brothers?

EDIT - found this article Three states bicker over ‘first in flight’ claim

Probably on par with how the other safety stuff in the country is. Bad, not talked about, and actively suppressed if discovered.