I'm reading the Book of John Roe, *Elliptic Operators, Topology and Asymptotic Methods* and got stuck at Lemma 2.27. i) How does this lemma show that a real vector bundle can be given by a pullback of direct sums of plane bundles? ii) Assuming i) is clear, is this equation $\Pi_f(E) = h^* \prod_j g(p_1(P_j))$ then true for suitable real 2-plane bundles $P_j$ in which some vector bundle $E'$ splits as direct sum such that $E=h^*E'$? iii) What happens in odd dimensions? Has it something to do with choosing $g(0)=1$? I appreciate some literature or concise explaination. :)