Should'nt they get the wheels up?!!
According to the comments of one of the test pilots on Sky, ( great coverage) the plan is to fly for the first half hour at least with the gear and flaps down, and at that stage, they make a decision if it's go or no go for the remainder of the plan of the day. If it's go, then he suggested that's the point where things like flaps and gear will be retracted, but only when they are comfortable with the handling characteristics so far. Reason he gave is that if they have any sort of problem, the aircraft is already in landing configuration, so it's not such an issue to get it back on the ground again. Makes sense to me.
On a different subject, Sky active showed the take off a second time shortly after the real thing, and it was "interesting" to watch the wings start to fly before the gear left the ground, the amount of flex is amazing
Not quite the same as watching the test flights of the white dart,
but still impressive non the less.
I wish it and everyone invovlved well