The book, The World Of Sport Aviation, represents a comprehensive review of one of the fastest-growing sport activities in America.  Sport aviation today encompasses an exuberant, vividly colorful and highly individualistic combination of interest, skills and aircraft.  This wide-ranging book recounts the history of amateur aviation from the earlisest Wright Brothers flights up to today's dedicated entusiasts around the world.  The author focuses on each of the basic types of sport aircraft from antiques, classics, homebuilts and ultralights up to warbirds.  Also revealed through anecdotes and technical analysis is the state of the art in each category and the direction of current developments.  This book also delves into what is needed in terms of skills and tools to build a homebuilt.  The reader of this book will also benefit by an exacting survey of the experimental plans and kits available as of the publishing of this book.  In addition to a forward by the Experimental Aircraft Association President Paul Poberenzy the major sections of this book are as follows: 1) In The Beginning; 2) The Home-built Airplane; 3) The Warriors; 4) The Antiques; 5) Classic Forms; 6) The Ultralights; 7) Odds and Ends; 8) Epilogue and 9) Survey of Experimental Aircraft Plans and Kits provided by Harvey R. Swack,  In addtion to a very informative text, this book includes 93 vintage black and white photographs and 39 color photographs.  This book is 242 pages and is in very good condition.  The author is Budd Davisson.  Edition published in 1982.