Another lovely Williams flick from the back of his hand released Muliaina to glideinto the corner for a simple try - his 31st in a joint-record 92nd Test.
The assumption that Mr Brown will glide smoothly into the job needs to be replaced by the assumption that he should be challenged by credible alternatives, including those who claim to be more Blairite than he is.
The problem is that big numbers of that sort can either scare investors into thinking a target is unobtainable or force them into a risky glide path in search of returns to reach that magic number.
The clever thing about Mr Rutan's aircraft is that it can tumble back into the atmosphere and glide down to land without any fancy computerised guidance.
The craft is meant to speed off a runway and accelerate gracefully into orbit in a single blast, perform a task like launching a satellite and then glide back home to its hangar.