Two teenage boys were left dangling in the air and had to be rescued after a bungee ride malfunctioned at London’s annual "Winter Wonderland” holiday event in Hyde Park.

New rides such as the Backdraft roller coaster and the Ejection Seat, a reverse bungee drop, helped draw the second-largest crowd in Ventura County Fair history, organizers said Monday. The 12-day ...

Reverse bungee rides, sometime referred to as slingshots, ejection seats or a catapult bungee fling riders hundreds of feet into the air on elastic ropes.

Three new rides join the lineup of thrills on the midway including Slingshot, which will be catapulting the brave into the air reverse-bungee style. It’s classified as a high-level thrill ride.