| Bill Hosie built a plane, a survivor from the Schneider Trophy Reign
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| He seemed like a nice old guy, with his
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| Baseball cap and his sunlit eyes
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| He took the airframe, motor, and wings
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| And restored all the fabric, the floats, the
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| Struts and things
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| And «The Shark on Banana Skis» was set
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| To roar once more over Cornwall seas
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| In the «27» Schneider race, it was a
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| Supermarine that took first place
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| The year Bill Hosie was born, there were
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| Still tall ships sailing 'round Cape Horn
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| But the S5 Supermarine was the fastest
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| Seaplane the world had ever seen
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| Nearly 300 miles an hour with a Napier
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| Lion engine to give her power
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| And her daughters flew in World War
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| Two, their pilots were known as the first
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| Of the few
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| When the Battle of Britain raged, it was the
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| Spitfire blazed across the history page
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| But Bill Hosie had a dream to haunt the
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| Skies with the ghost of a Supermarine
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| And she rose on the steppe again with the
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| Spirit of a Schneider Trophy-winning
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| Seaplane
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| She took to the cool spring air with Bill
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| Hosie sitting in the pilot’s chair
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| She banked along the Cornwall shore, but
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| Her tail broke away and she flew no more
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| She flew from her flight of grace the year
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| They revived the Schneider Trophy Race
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| And the Supermarine S5 was the plane that
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| Made Bill Hosie feel alive |