This gif shows the massive scale of some of the world's most famous aircraft

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We compared the sizes of some of the most famous - and some of the largest - flying machines in the world.

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Though the Space Shuttle Orbiter and Concorde may be a bit larger than you'd expect, they're all dwarfed by the nearly football-field-sized Antonov An-225 Mriya.

Here they are:

Sizing up history's most famous planes GIF

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Dragan Radovanovic and Will Fierman contributed to this story.

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