A ventilator which can rotate freely around a vertical axis can be used to demonstrate that the angular momentum is a vector. A ventilator is mounted so that it can rotate freely around a vertical axis. It can also be tilted so that the air is blown either horizontally or upward. Upon turning on the ventilator, both the propeller and the driven air jet receive an angular momentum. Its vector points in the direction of the jet, parallel to the axis of the propeller. The ventilator receives an equal angular momentum in the opposite direction (opposite sense of rotation). The experiment is carried out for two different orientations of the ventilator.