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.
Copyright 1994 Frederick J. Shannon. Fullscreen. Part of the Edmund Fitzgerald's last cargo- 26,116 tons of taconite iron ore pellets loaded at Burlington-Northern Ore Docks in Superior, Wisconsin on November 9, 1975 and bound for Zug Island in the Detroit River. These pellets are on the forward section's main deck. Copyright 1994 Frederick J. Shannon.