Solution

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Fibrewise evaluation identifies
The identity endomorphism is a nowhere-zero continuous section, giving the canonical trivialization of a line bundle tensored with its dual.
Give a complex line bundle its natural orientation as a real plane bundle. Then its Euler class equals its First Chern class. If are the standard generators of , choose complex line bundles pulled back from the Hopf fibration on the two factors, with and . The triviality of gives . Hence, for any
the tensor product , with negative powers interpreted using dual bundles, has Euler class . Its underlying oriented real rank-two bundle is the required .

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