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