[cynwoody]

Taking off doesn’t stress landing gear like landing does.

Here is some serious landing gear about to be stressed:

That's the Antonov 225 Mriya.

[ken5050]

That's true to some extent, but the greatest risk comes form the number of cycles ( landings and take-off) on the airframe..

That Antonov, which is used for long haul flights..probably averages 600 or so cycles/year..whereas a puddle jumper like the Southwest Boeing might do 2000+/year.

Remember way back when the top of the Hawaii Air fuselage came off in mid-air...it was metal fatigue...because that plane did nothing but inter-island hops..IIRC it had over 20,000 cycles.