Quote: “How slowly the gear retracts”
It did so on the WW2 era aircraft I first got my left seat as airline pilot.
Here is a link for the flight manual of the EAA B-17 if anyobody is interested.
https://www.eaa.org/~/media/files/eaa/flight%20experiences/safety/b-17-flight-training-manual.pdf
It’s good to have more engines but for the new aviators here, the more you have of course the more chances of loosing one and sure it happens so!!