HH:-
I'm willing to bet that no-one will ever sign off a full release but they will just work round it a little here, a little there
...and therein lies the irony. If military airworthiness provision had remained unmolested by RAF VSOs almost 30 years ago all this hiatus would have been avoided. You would have experienced fully trained airworthiness engineers in post who would have simply turned to the established procedures and regulations to provide a solution for this aircraft to go into service, whether for training, displaying, or for war. You can't even call these unexpected consequences, for they were predicted at the time by the very people being given the order of the boot, ie those who refused to suborn the regulations and strove to the very last to enforce them.
The creeping introduction of this aircraft into RAF service, no doubt correctly predicted here, would be as cynical and potentially disastrous as was the illegal RTS issued to a knowingly grossly unairworthy Chinook Mk2.
Chickens are coming home to roost now, and the MOD has to face up at last to the consequences of subverting Haddon-Cave and consequently the MAA. It can only get out of this situation of its own making by admitting the past, and reforming Military Air Safety. That means an independent MAA and MAAIB, both of the MOD and of each other. That means some people's collars being felt.
Or, on the other hand, the avoidable accidents and pointless deaths can simply continue...