The Bonomi BS.10 Ardea (English: Great Heron) was an Italian single seat high performance glider, designed and built in the mid-1930s.
The outer ends of the centre section were braced, as on some other Bonomi gliders, with a pair of faired, asymmetric steel V-struts, mounted on the lower fuselage immediately below the forward wing spar.
Its pilot sat in a small, deep cockpit, head against the front of the pedestal and partly protected from the airstream by the upper fuselage panels, which both lifted off for entry.
There was a conventional single skid undercarriage under the forward fuselage aft to the wing trailing edge, with a small tailskid.
The fuselage tapered gently to the tail, where a large, roughly elliptical balanced rudder, mounted on a much smaller fin, extended down to the keel.