I used to build rockets. Never launched one I didn't lose except for a crappy one. The last one I launched I built over a few weeks. Beautiful 3 tube rocket. She went fairly straight up, but got into heavy wind up top of the flight path. It ended up drifting about 3 football fields and landed in the top of a tree that was maybe 75 feet high. And I was aiming away from the trees. The one I could launch and retrieve was a paper towel tube with a paper nose cone and carboard tail fins. Damn thing flew straight as an arrow and fell back nearly where I launched it every time. No chute. It was basically a paper towel tube with a motor