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.
About 1915 EST., on November 10, 1975, the Great Lakes bulk cargo vessel SS EDMUND. FITZGERALD, fully loaded with a cargo of taconite pellets, sank in eastern Lake Superior in. position 46 59.91 N, 85 06.6âW, approximately 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay, Michigan.