Were honeycomb panels based on honeycombs?

Honeybees routinely build honeycombs, these possessing striking geometric features. 
Honeycomb panels - especially Aluminum - are routinely used in Aerospace. They have an incredible strength-to-weight ratio. 
I always wondering if there's a relationship between the honeycomb panels so often used in aircraft and the honeycombs built by bees.  Aerospace, yacht and motor racing designers use the phrase ‘Build lightness into your design’. Our honeycomb sandwich enables a designer to do just that. The honeycomb form provides stiffness, strength and light weight, whilst still offering a degree of flexibility. The technical terms for this are ‘high out-of-plane shear strength’ and ‘high out-of-plane compression properties’ in relation to other design options.
And that is why the plane panels are called honeycomb. The bees did not know it was stronger, but evolution selects for what works the best. Humans that are smart enough realize nature provides lots of similar well proven designs.

Ceiling Honeycomb Panels Installation

1, Honeycomb Panels Material Requirements

Materials used must meet the design requirements, and have the corresponding certificate and inspection reports, materials must be accepted by the supervising engineer into the plant before use.

2, Process

 Measuring cable → Install boom → Install L30 * 2 boom galvanized base angle keel → Install honeycomb panels dedicated accessaries → Install honeycomb panels→ Finishes cleaning → inspection and acceptance.

3, Construction Points

(1) Measurement Pull: According to drawings, use measuring instruments measure finecorrect data in the steel roof of the main keel cable construction. First, pull to find out the center of the construction segment (measuring instruments retest), in order to determine the center point construction section keel sub-file line of position, according to the sub-file line of position determining boom installation location.
(2) Fixed boom: according to the marked position by boom, install pre-processed all wire boom on the keel screw of the steel roof, boom pitch control ≤ 1200mm, if fixed by welding, it should be brushed antirust paint.
(3) Installation L30 * 2 galvanized base angle keel: According to the design of professional decoration construction plans, honeycomb panel size is 1200 * 2500mm, in order to ensure the installation of honeycomb panels, galvanized angle steel keel shall cellular base plate board surface by vertical mounting in length direction, fit the width direction of the plate surface, the keel spacing is not more than 1200; from the end plate is not more than 300.
(4) Installation honeycomb panels’ dedicated connection accessories and honeycomb panels  : L-type keel is installed firstly, then install honeycomb panels. L-shaped galvanized base connected with honeycomb panels using special Z-shaped keel aluminum hooks yards, then fixed with M5 bolts. Between honeycomb panels plate using a dedicated connector connection plate to prevent from the profiles along the slide plate, left and right mounting nonslipping connector block fixed firmly, the connecting member of the number and location of the corresponding hook in the longitudinal direction. Between honeycomb panels and aluminum tabs use the 25 * 25 * 100 special aluminum alloy to shut.