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If the airplane has "retractable" landing gear, the wheels and struts fold up inside the wings, or belly, or engine compartment of the plane. Sometimes openings where the wheels go (wheel wells) are covered with doors when the gear is retracted, but sometimes the gear itself has a cover on one side and that's the side that forms the flat surface on the bottom of the airplane when the gear is retracted.
Some small aircraft have "fixed landing gear." Those wheels don't go anywhere. They just hang in the air as the plane flies. These airplanes rarely go over 180 miles per hour, so the gear is not damaged by the wind. With bigger and faster aircraft the gear must be retractable so it is not damaged.
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