Vadim Komkov (August 18, 1919 – May 14, 2008) was born in Moscow, Russia, and raised in Poland after his parents died in the Bolshevik Revolution.
He was stationed at Hucknall Aerodrome, and was sent to RAF Wrexham to practice flying the Avro Lancaster and the Supermarine Spitfire.
[1] He later became a mechanical engineer in London, where he met and married his first wife Joyce Radford, of Long Eaton, England, in 1946.
[citation needed] He and Joyce had their first child after the war and the family moved to emigrated to Zambia where he worked for the Rhokana Mining Company.
[4] His joint monograph with Haug and Choi, Design sensitivity analysis of structural systems, was published by Academic Press in 1986, and listed over 900 cites in Google scholar in 2009.