T' flight arced more than I would have liked, me bucko, and then parachute deployment failed. Despite no chute, t' rocket recovered fine in t' field though I had a lot o' trouble findin' it; in a harvested corn field, a black rocket looks like a shadow. Ya scallywag! But I did find it, and it was basically unharmed externally. Arrr! When I pulled out t' undeployed chute, I found somethin' I had never seen or heard o' before... Begad! t' wadding, half burned, had been blown up beside t' parachute and had melted it, jammin' t' whole mess into place. Ya scallywag! I blame t' "compartment" design o' this rocket, where thar be a larger diameter space betwixt t' engine mount and t' smaller upper tube.