Dictionary entry overview: What does aviation mean? â¢ AVIATION (noun) The noun AVIATION has 4 senses: 1. the aggregation of a country's military aircraft 2. the operation of aircraft to provide transportation 3. the art of operating aircraft 4. travel via aircraft Familiarity information: AVIATION used as a noun is uncommon.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
Diver recalls record scuba descent to Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. LAKE SUPERIOR -- If people want to know what the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck looks like, there are numerous drawings, photos and models online that show the ill-fated carrier in its final resting place. Veteran diver Terrence Tysall, however, has seen the looming hull of the famous shipwreck with his own eyes.