Today I have a wonderful interview for you with my friend, the beautiful and accomplished TT. TT has a fantastic background and has an amazing and very unique career, which you’ll soon read more about. The fact that TT is another Hermes lover with a fabulous collection is just icing on the cake! I’m happy to introduce such a lovely and hard working woman to you all – enjoy meeting TT!

A beautiful Curry Bolide

Who are you? What do you do, and where do you live?

Hi, I’m TT.  I am involved in various aspects of aviation – military and civilian. I split my time between several cities, and travel frequently. Most everything we do has to do with airplanes and aviation: aerial refueling, cargo, tracking and so on. The best overall description of what I do is “Air Mobility” – which we like to explain as being the non-lethal use of air power.

I come from a family of engineers and all of us have been involved with aviation, space systems, and satellites and so on in one form or another. I know it gets a bad rap but I am also what could be considered a “part time socialite” – gasp! – which really just means that I attend various political and social events.

The necessities of work travel

Your job sounds amazing, and high profile. What is like to be in that position?

To have connections and the power to change things is not a bad thing. It can be used to do good. It opens doors that may otherwise be closed to others. I help to raise money and do other positive things for military families, aviation museums, and programs to reach out to young people with an interest in aviation. It has been shown that aviation and drugs and alcohol don’t mix. If you can get kids interested in aviation, even kids at risk, they can be encouraged to make positive choices, and given skills and goals that are achievable even if they are from lower income backgrounds. Love of aviation can be a spark that changes a kid’s life.

Amethyst Lindy, Black Kelly Pochette, Geranium Birkin

TT in San Antonio, working!

I know you recently returned from Paris. How was the trip? 

Paris has been a lifelong dream for me. Of all the places in the world I have traveled I had never been to Paris. When my husband asked me to marry him, I told him he had to ask me under the Eiffel Tower (hoping this would garner me a nice trip)! Well, we had an Aerial Refueling conference at Bally’s in Las Vegas that year and so he asked me marry him under the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel and Casino. Not exactly what I had in mind. But still, with the promise of the real Paris in the future, I said yes.

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