Additional Commentary for "I was looking for pictures of Della, when I noticed something interesting about her portrait:"

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When I first noticed the piece of paper on the plane's dash, I thought it was a map. But now, I'm starting to wonder if all of the three items featured here, are meant to hint toward the Spear's blueprint and the family photo!

The triangular shape I originally saw as a patch of land, could definitely pass as a simplified rocket. I thought I saw gridlines too, but I went back to check this scene on a TV and didn't see any. I guess my brain tricked itself after deciding that I saw a map. 😅 Whatever this really is, I still do believe Della was headed towards some kinda island-like destination when she wanted to go to Space.

Heh, something else I thought months after making my original post, is that this supposed map was of Ithaquack, before the episode aired. I had more recently compared it with other mysterious places and wondered of a possible connection between them: It was fabled like Hazel House and sorta like The Ramrod, with its entries to fantasy dimensions. It's uncharted like Falcon Island was pulled from maps. And all of these places had an element of avoidance when it came to visiting them.

The paper on the dashboard is really difficult to make out in full...it looks like it's a ripped piece of something bigger, but I dunno, it could just be a little rolled up at the corners. This reminds me of the missing photo piece that Dewey was after in "Last Crash", which could be highly reflective of Della's desire to solve Dad's missing mystery.

As for the family photo having a chance of being hinted at, there was a Polaroid version of it on Della's desk as she's drawing the Spear in Scrooge's flashback. The "Lost Crown" riddle from "Secret(s)" is there too, underneath the blueprint and could also be hinting towards Della's possible search.

A different copy of it is taped to the right side of the Spear's dash, much like the placement of the unknown photos in the plane.

If a couple of these items are meant to be literal earlier versions of the blueprints and the family photo, what could the second photo be? Because of my speculations, I think it's more than likely to be another family-related one...I thought that maybe it could be a copy of the birthday one with Donald from "Dime Chase".

...But what if it's one of Dad? If Plan A of the show was supposedly going to lead into revealing the father of the triplets, like I strongly believe it was, could the second photo have been hinting towards another one we should have seen? Or could the two photos be meant to represent a parallel between what drove her to Space and what drove her back home?

If Della's goal in Space was to get Dad "in the picture", he would have been placed on the right side of it, next to her...

In the earliest installment of my "Association" essay, a Google search helped me realize similarities between Della's portrait and LP's "Family is the greatest adventure" scene in "Woo-oo!":

Pilots with planes, a sunset sky, a lot of shared colors...the hula girl bobble figure on the dash just like the items in question; it's even placed on the same side! Its design has changed multiple times and one of those include wearing teal and green like both of the pilots.

Because of this, and her hair-length, I previously considered the possibility of the figure representing Della. The longer hair feels a little reminiscent of what Della looked like on the Moon, and the shorter hair reminds me of how she cut it when she came back home. The hula girl could have been earlier expressions of these concepts before they were finalized. What's also worth noting is that this figure was featured during moments like Dewey's chase in "Last Crash" and the arguing that occurred after the flashback. It was on LP's half, where he kept cutting into all the blame being placed on Scrooge. This combined with the plane tipping forward, could indicate that Della's disappearance had much more to do with saving Dad than Scrooge building the rocket for her. And the shot of the hula girl as the plane falls from the peak, could definitely represent how Della fell to the Moon after the lightning strike.

Something that could draw an even stronger connection between the pilots through this figure, is that it's more than likely to be Launchpad's. He already owns a DW one for the limo. 

It's not too hard to believe he'd have another one for the type of vehicle he prefers to be in.

And while this probably doesn't mean much, Issue #3 of the IDW DuckTales comics, seemed to suggest that the hula girl may not have been there prior to him taking over as Scrooge's pilot.

But, yeah! Della's Dedication Room is full of hints towards her disappearance, so...I'm feeling pretty positive that I'm onto something with my claim.