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.
Fullscreen. The original bell from the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald which sank with 29 crew members in November, 1975. Divers retrieved the bell on July 4, 1995, replacing it with a replica on which the names of the crew were inscribed. The original bell is now at the Whitefish Point Shipwreck Museum.