Abstract: Aircrafts typically touch down with their wheels not rotating. Their tires skid for a few hundred feet before they turn the ground speed of the aircraft. Tire failure, and pollution can be largely eliminated by rotating the wheels prior to touchdown. A simple safe method to rotate the wheels on an aircraft comprises the following steps: using a rotatable circular member having an outer rim portion, an inner hub portion adapted for connection to the axle, and, a central portion. Arranging laterally extending multiple vanes to the central portion so that airflow from a front side of the aircraft will not pass through the member and will cause the circular member to rotate in a forward direction. And providing a shroud to cover an upper portion of the rotatable circular member so that airflow may only pass over the vanes on a lower portion of the rotatable circular member.