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THE TUBE Veintesomething Video Imagine a Chicano "Wayne's World." Sub- says Flavio. The other Morales brothers were tract the idiocy, add some music and a cer- soon on board, and they moved to the city's tain yo no se and you've only begun to newest TV station, the resolutely multiethnic catch on to "Illegal Interns." KMET, Channel 38, where the show is broadProduced by "four young Chicano cast every day from 5 to 5:30 p.m. minds" -brothers Flavio, Efrain and Oscar Between writing, hosting, producing and Morales and their friend Richard Estrada- editing the show, keeping up with their varit's heavy on rock, alternative, ious school responsibilities and looking for dance and rock en -and interviews an agent, the Eastside quartet is feeling with newsworthy pretty ragged. "We're artists, Latino and starting to look non-. "We cover tired," admits Flavio.

Clockwise from bottom left: everything, 'cause we Efrain, Flavio They're also feeling like everything," says and Oscar Mor- poor. Although they Flavio, who co-hosts ales, Richard can use KMET'S prowith Richard. "We Estrada. duction facilities for pride ourselves in not free, they don't get narrowing our show. paid and are in dire Otherwise we'd lose need of some dinero.

what we're all about." Flavio perks up, "Illegal Interns" though, when he enviwas born in 1990 sions what today's when Flavio and hard work and sacriRichard put on a pub- fice could well bring. lic access show as in- "We'll have season terns (get it?) at tickets to the Dodger Buena Vision Cable, games, a nice little which operates in and around East L.A. "We production house crawling with kidswere given the opportunity to do an alterna- young interns and fresh minds--and we'll tive music show and we ran away with it," be living off it." -Leila Cobo-Hanlon CITYSCENE Barbara London with daughter Kristy. CLOSE- UP Sky Queen years arbara sophomore old London in 1939, was majoring 19 a in home economics at the University of Washington, when she saw a sign saying the military would teach women how to fly. That beats home economics, she thought to herself.

So she signed up and was soon an instructor in the Civilian Training program. By the the United States A perfect cuppa. The McCharles House Restaurant and Tea Room, ustin. Photographs: Rick Angeles Times, left, Dale Berman, right; illustration: Mary Monge LOS World War II, she was the head of the Long Beach unit of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, which delivered military aircraft to airfields all over the country. After the war, London parlayed her aviation expertise into a way of life.

With a friend, Barney Frazier, she started Barney Frazier Aircraft Sales, a small Long Beach-based aircraft brokerage. She married a pilot and raised two daughters, both of whom have done a bit of aviation pioneering themselves. Her oldest child, Terry Rine- Pilot hart, was one of the first women time to fly for an airline (she's now a entered first officer for Delta), and Kristy London Ardizzone, the youngest, is vice president of her mom's company. With two pilots for parents, "It was all aviation," Ardizzone says. "Every breakfast, every dinner was aviation oriented." Unlike her sister, who learned to fly at an early age, Ardizzone preferred horses to airplanes.

Though she still raises and shows quarter horses, genetics won out: She learned to fly 10 years ago, when she came into the business after Frazier died. Now she loves it: "I'm addicted." She's also hooked on the aviation biz. "She does most of the work," says London. "It's nice having a legend for a mom," Ardizzone says. "But she's a tough act to follow in aviation." -Alessandra K.

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