Jose wrote:

It is not until power is pulled almost all the way back, which in my case
typically is less than 50 feet above the runway or about a second before
touchdown.

You land with a vertical speed of fifty feet per second? I don't think
it matters whether it's gear up or down at that point!

LESS than. I guess the tears in your eyes from your uncontrollable
laughter perhaps prevented you from reading that part.

--
Peter